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In article <4dp86f$n4b@multivac.orthanc.com>,
Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.com> wrote:
>[ Followups pointed to bc.bcnet for lack of a better group. ]
>
>I just received some email from Boston College. They were rather
>amused to see the BC newsgroup description posting arrive in their
>internal UNIX newsgroup (bc.unix). Obviously someone is leaking the
>bc.* groups outside of the region. This is Not Good. Such leakage
>encourages sites outside of BC to create the groups, leading to
>further propagation, etc. Nearly all of the newsgroup spamming we've
>seen can be directly attributed to this.
>
>If everyone were to take a minute to update their newsfeeds files to
>remove the bc.* groups (and the bc distribution) from their feeds
>to sites outside of BC we would eliminate a lot of the garbage postings.
>(You should also request any sites that incorrectly received the bc.*
>groups to drop them from their active file.)

This won't do any good. As soon as someone crossposts a message to a 
widely propogated newsgroup, (i.e. bc.unix,comp.unix.misc) you will
get worldwide propogation and anyone who follows up in Russia will end up 
in bc.unix.

Also, the major USENET news processors are attempting to have as complete 
and thorough a coverage as possible and this means that they *WANT* to 
carry all regional newsgroups. This allows them to claim that they have 
18,000 groups and therefore are better than the guy with only 15,000 
groups. Only you and I know that the 3,000 extra groups are things like
alt.at&t.--+--+--+++--+---+---+-+-+ and 
comp.fuck.you.joe.bloe.you.are.an.idiot.idiot.idiot

If I were assigned to Lower Slobovia for a year, I would *WANT* to be 
able to read and post to bc.* and can.* newsgroups.

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