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From: king@KESTREL.ARPA (Dick King)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: I'm trying to shut down the Berkeley Connection
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Date: Sun, 8-Sep-85 22:37:52 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  8 22:37:52 1985
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It looks like somebody has spliced some sort of link between some
mailing list that sends a large amount of religious debate and us.  I
don't like this any better than you, and have sent a letter to
postmaster@ucb-vax to try to get them to shut the spigot.

Maybe (s)he will be able to solve the problem, but I have no response
yet. 

I have two questions: 

  1> Does anyone out there have a program that runs under Ultrix and
  that can divert messages from a specified source?  I will use this
  to flush this stuff and allow legitimate submissions from UCB to go
  through, if I can't get satisfaction from Berkeley.

  2> Some of you have asked to be removed from the list.  If I can get
  this connection severed, do you still want to be removed?

I suspect that when the new <netinfo>interest-groups.text came out
three weeks back, somebody spliced this link thinking they had a new
audience for creationist drivel (I apologize in advance to those
groupmembers I just offended).  We didn't notice for three weeks
because of a mailer problem at our site.


-dick