Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!bionet!apple!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: Re: Mad junk mail disease Message-ID: <1990May31.215852.8200@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 31 May 90 21:58:52 GMT References: <9005311622.AA02465@genbank.bio.net> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 14 kristoff@genbank.BIO.NET (David Kristofferson) writes: -> There is an easy solution to this problem if it becomes a major annoyance. -> We can at any time convert the BIOSCI newsgroups into a moderated forum. -> [...] In response to another incident on the newsgroups (not the above and -> so infantile that I almost did not want to reply) Making the bionet groups moderated won't help. I assume you're referring to the recent cowabunga plague. Note that it appeared on various moderated groups, with forged Approved: headers. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"