🚀 go-pugleaf

       First, thank  you to all (many, many, many) who sent me so much
    helpful information. 
       For the many, many more who assumed that I was some sort of a
    WhatEverMutant for  having posted so many copies : I only posted
    it once! Stop putting so much faith in the technology and so little
    in the people trying to use it, after all it's only 1993 !

For a better explaination (and many thanks to Jeff Johnson):
>  From: jeffj@ultra.com (Jeff Johnson)
> To: snmp@psi.com, gordon@rahul.net
> Subject: Re: Very basic info needed (please)
>
>I was wondering why I was being bombarded with this message, and then
>noticed the following:
>=> Newsgroups: info.snmp,comp.protocols.snmp
>
>This message is being propagated by NetNews.  The origin of this
>message was a post to a local newsgroup "info.snmp" which is gatewayed
>to this SNMP mailing list.  Normally when a message is posted to a
>local newsgroup it is not propagated outside the local domain.  In this
>case, however, it was cross-posted to a "global" newsgroup, hence the
>message is being propagated.  And now every site which has an
>"info.snmp" newsgroup gatewayed to the mailing list is resending the
>message to the list.  I guess there is a lesson to be learned here, but
>what is that message, and who is to for?  I'd say the message is for
>system admins, and the message is "don't gateway a message from a newsgroup
>to a mailing list unless the message originated in your domain".
>
>    Jeff Johnson    | Ultra Network Technologies | voice: (408) 922-0100 x284
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> The difference between ignorance and apathy?  I don't know and I don't care

-- 
Gordon Vickers <gordon@rahul.net>