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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: trash message from usenet (BIFF)
Message-ID: <1990Jun2.033607.9779@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 2 Jun 90 03:36:07 GMT
References: <9006011234.AA22023@monk.proteon.com> <9006011556.AA23309@sonny.proteon.com> <3142@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU>
Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers
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Gee, the funny thing is, few of us on the Usenet side were 
bothered by this lid. Why? A responsible net_citizen cancelled
all the garbage before most people saw it. It's a pity your
maillist software won't handle cancels; then you would not have
been annoyed either. Maybe you should fix it. ;-} 

There are things that annoy me about maillist<-->newsgroup bridging.
The chief one is all the "PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE ME" psotings that it
brings. Nothing is perfect; most of all Usenet. If you are really that
upset by this very unusual event, may I suggest you snag "filter"
from the elm distribution and set it up to bit_bucket all that "trash"
that comes from the bridge site.

I hope this bridge keeps working. I learn a lot reading this
group.



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