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Re: What is going on in this newsgroup?

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From: David Masterson
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:49
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>>>>> Clark L Coleman writes:

> 80% of the postings here are gibberish. Is this newsgroup under
> attack, or what? Are these all legitimate foreign language postings
> that I cannot read on my US-English locale computer? If so, why this
> newsgroup and no other similar technical newsgroups that I read?

They're showing up in a large percentage of all the GNU newsgroups.

> Just curious.

I'm curious too.  Many of the postings don't even look like they have
legitimate HTML in them, so I wonder how anyone could read them.

Anyone have any filtering rules for this gibberish?

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David Masterson                David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer               Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering           Sunnyvale, CA
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Date: 15 Apr 2002 11:49:08 -0700
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