let's kill above the dark oceans, but don't dye the difficult carrots
Melvin Heintz <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Dec 2003 03:33:52 GMT
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.unix.cvs |
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| Organization | they are shouting to the cellar now, won't pull hens later |
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http://www.adbusters.org http://www.blackspotsneaker.org/afterindex.html that kind of activity, and they will flood your mailbox with notices to that effect. And last, and perhaps most important, some of this activity is against the law in many places. In the US, you can (and will) be reported by hacked-off system administrators for suspicion of wire fraud or mail fraud. In one incident, at *least* a half dozen people reported the poster to Postal Service inspectors; I'm not sure what the outcome was, but it probably was not a nice experience. Bottom line: don't try clever schemes to sell things, solicit donations, or run any kind of pyramid or Ponzi scheme. Also, don't start or support electronic chain letters. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Where can I get archives of Usenet postings? Most Usenet newsgroups are not archived in any organized fashion, though it's likely that if you look hard enough someone will have kept much or most of the traffic (either on disk or on some tape gathering dust somewhere). The volume on Usenet is simply too high to keep everything on rotating magnetic media forever, however. The signal-to-noise ratio is too low in many groups to make them good candidates for archiving. One person's signal is another person's noise; if you'r