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Randy McLaughlin wrote something like:

> As for my rants about one of the yahoo members the facts are simple the 
> Spammer said he didn't like the Spam that was happening so he asked 
> everyone to move to the yahoo group.  When we didn't he signed up the 
> listserver to as many porno sites as he could trying to force everyone to 
> join the yahoo group.

Mmmm... do you have any real palpable evidence of such unethical behaviour?

The facts, at least for/from the people that have been members of the then 
mail list from Princeton - and I have since the very early 90s, is that spam 
filled the bit.listserv.coco Usenet newsgroup because of an unattended mail 
list, which was gated to the usenet group, no one was moderating or taking 
care of the Princeton mail list; "our" newsgroup fell victim as many many 
other mail lists and newsgroups to the spamepidemic of the late 90s - no one 
needed to actually "go in" and sign up anything to get the spam, the bots 
took care of the whole thing.

The Yahoo! groups were established well before the spam infestation... I 
remember that I used to get the usenet group by the then fledging DejaNews 
service as I had unsuscribed to the mail list because of the sheer volume of 
dirt flying into my Inbox. Things didn't get any better and the Maltedmedia 
list was born, an effort by a serious long-time TRS-80 tinkerer and CoCo 
enthusiast. Both venues an effort of people with far better things to do 
than resort to the practices you've been so fond to state as fact when 
they're far from it.

Going back to Sockmaster's Matrix screen demo... I tried it on my CoCo 3. It 
is a very good rendition of the falling code seen on the movies. It is such 
a small and elegant program, can't wait to showcase it to my Windoze nutty 
friends. Don't know how it shows up on an emulator though and probably never 
will, as long as I have the real CoCo 3 plugged in and ready to go :-)


-=[ Rogelio ]=-