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
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.

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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