Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!lll-tis!mcb
From: mcb@tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Messages posted by garyt@ihlpa.ATT.COM
Message-ID: <22178@tis.llnl.gov>
Date: 4 May 88 20:53:07 GMT
References: <22174@tis.llnl.gov>
Reply-To: mcb@tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch)
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA
Lines: 19
Summary: Clarification

In article <22174@tis.llnl.gov> as news@tis.llnl.gov I wrote:
> The following is a copy of mail that I sent to {usenet,root}@ihlpa.ATT.COM:
> 
> Last week I sent mail to you regarding a Usenet message posted by
> ihlpa!garyt (Gary Theis) which was a commercial announcement and thus 
> prohibited.  The message was cross-posted to a large number of 
> inappropriate newsgroups.  It appears this message was posted at least 
> *12* times, each as a followup to a random, unrelated article.  Copies 
> of the headers are appended to this message; in each case the message 
> body (which follows the last header) was the same.  [...]

The first sentence of this should read, "...which was a commercial
announcement and thus prohibited, except in comp.newprod and in the
(alternative) biz.* hierarchy."

Thanks to the two people that pointed this out by mail.

Michael C. Berch 
mcb@tis.llnl.gov / {ames,ihnp4,lll-crg,lll-lcc,mordor}!lll-tis!mcb