WTF? Spam on this newgroup?

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Ishmael Rufus

Did all the moderators die or is there some wierd invasion of the body
snatchers going on? Why am i seeing this?
 
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Piotr Gaertig /Gertas/

Did all the moderators die or is there some wierd invasion of the body
snatchers going on? Why am i seeing this?

Hello,

Are there any moderators ? :/
I thought that this usenet group is fully accessible to public.
Usenet is distributed, so even if there are moderators they are
able to cancel messages in one (or more) server. Not every server permits
distrubuted cancelation.

Best regards,
Piotr Gaertig
 
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Paul Tomblin

In a previous article said:
Did all the moderators die or is there some wierd invasion of the body
snatchers going on? Why am i seeing this?

This not not a moderated newsgroup.
 
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Mike Schilling

Ishmael Rufus said:
Did all the moderators die or is there some wierd invasion of the body
snatchers going on? Why am i seeing this?

This is not a moderated group.
 
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Paul Tomblin

In a previous article said:
Did all the moderators die or is there some wierd invasion of the body
snatchers going on? Why am i seeing this?

Let me guess - you're one of these idiot who accesses real Usenet groups
through Google Groups, and doesn't realize that Google didn't invent these
things? Got news for you, kid, Usenet was here 20 years ago when we were
pushing full feeds over 1200bps modems, and it will still be here when
Google is just a vague memory.
 
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Tony Morris

Let me guess - you're one of these idiot who accesses real Usenet groups
through Google Groups,

Ignorance is not grounds for claims of idiocy.
One might be inclined to expose your ignorance (or mine even) - and while
we're at it, let's do it "on topic" with respect to Java.
Or shall we concede that ignorance is a part of human nature?

--
Tony Morris

JTiger Unit Test Framework for J2SE 1.5
http://www.jtiger.org/
Java Q&A (FAQ, Trivia)
http://qa.jtiger.org/
http://xdweb.net/~dibblego/
 
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Mike Schilling

Paul Tomblin said:
Let me guess - you're one of these idiot who accesses real Usenet groups
through Google Groups, and doesn't realize that Google didn't invent these
things? Got news for you, kid, Usenet was here 20 years ago when we were
pushing full feeds over 1200bps modems,

Modems? Why, when I was young we had to call up the host computer and make
beeping noises, and we were glad to do it!
 
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Abrasive Sponge

Ishmael said:
Did all the moderators die or is there some wierd invasion of the body
snatchers going on? Why am i seeing this?

I rarely see spam here anyways. Maybe you are a spammer testing the
waters?

Well, if you were, the reason we don't have spammers is because we have
all developed a java spam tracking system. We hunt down the spammers
and kill them.
 
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Ross Bamford

Modems? Why, when I was young we had to call up the host computer and make
beeping noises, and we were glad to do it!

Indeed :) And a state-of-the-art communications protocol went like:

"Okay, ready? ten - print - quote - hello - world - end quote. twenty pr..,
oh sorry, TEN PRINT QUOTE... etc"

(Which would usually be acknowledged with a "It says Syntax Error")
 
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TechBookReport

Abrasive said:
I rarely see spam here anyways. Maybe you are a spammer testing the
waters?

Well, if you were, the reason we don't have spammers is because we have
all developed a java spam tracking system. We hunt down the spammers
and kill them.

Now there's an idea...
 
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Paul Tomblin

In a previous article said:
Now there's an idea...

Nah, it wouldn't help - Dave the Resurrector would just bring them back to
life again.

(Sorry, newsgeek joke.)
 
B

Bryce

Modems? Why, when I was young we had to call up the host computer and make
beeping noises, and we were glad to do it!

..and when there was no meat, we ate fowl and when there was no fowl,
we ate crawdad and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand.
 
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Steve Horsley

Mike said:
Modems? Why, when I was young we had to call up the host computer and make
beeping noises, and we were glad to do it!

Modems??? That's them new fangled things that go bang if you
connect them to the gool ol' 80-0-80 telegraph network, yes?

Beeps? Pah! You could FEEL 80 volts!

Steve
 
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steve

Let me guess - you're one of these idiot who accesses real Usenet groups
through Google Groups, and doesn't realize that Google didn't invent these
things? Got news for you, kid, Usenet was here 20 years ago when we were
pushing full feeds over 1200bps modems, and it will still be here when
Google is just a vague memory.

you had modems??
we had to send copies by punched tape!!
 
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Darryl Pierce

Ishmael said:
Did all the moderators die or is there some wierd invasion of the body
snatchers going on? Why am i seeing this?

This group has never been moderated.
 

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