X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,aa74e39f6afe4307 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-21 10:28:16 PST From: Neil Franklin Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: TESTING: Please do *not* open. Date: 21 Apr 2002 19:27:38 +0200 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 29 Message-ID: <6u4ri5j71x.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> References: <3cc2493a@news.starhub.net.sg> <3cc2be4d.5925300@news.charter.net> X-Complaints-To: news@chonsp.franklin.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Apr 2002 17:27:38 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 NNTP-Posting-Host: galapagos.ethz.ch X-Trace: pfaff.ethz.ch 1019410091 galapagos.ethz.ch (21 Apr 2002 19:28:11 +0100) Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!yellow.newsread.com!bad-news.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator2-maxim!propagator-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!news-zh.switch.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!chonsp.franklin.ch!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:16942 nope@nospam.nut (LGB) writes: > A certain amount of spam and dummies will always be there no matter > what group one belongs to. This is a header from R.A-A > > "Jessica Felix Designs - Art and all that Jazz" > > Spam yes or no as it is pertaining to art but not ascii art. In that particular case there is no question. That same message was sent to _every_ newsgroup I read, including those that have absolutely nothing to do with it, such as computer history, parapsychology, chip design, fantasy literature and comics! So that one was 100% complete spam, of the worst kind. > Defining > what is or what is not spam remains open to R.A-A Hopefully strict. Commercial announcements belong in biz.* groups or special *.market groups. -- Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ Hacker, Unix Guru, El Eng HTL/BSc, Sysadmin, Archer, Roleplayer - Make your code truely free: put it into the public domain