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From: patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Protection Against Abuse of Messages
Message-ID: <7694@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 12 Feb 89 20:24:12 GMT
References: <11954@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <11954@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>How about the guy in _Computer Languages_ who has a full page add
>selling stuff from comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibmpc for
>anywhere between $60 and $250 per pop.

That is a bit much. Are you certain of this? I've not seen the ads, or 
the finished product myself. But it would seem to me the contributors to
those two groups should make some inquiries of the chap. Either that, or
use the old guerilla warfare tactic of *deliberatly polluting the group
with wrong information, just to wreck his 'product'.* Under this approach,
the users either refuse to post to the group at all, or deliberatly
post nonsensical -- but on the surface to an unsophisticated reader --
'serious' replies. Then the chap winds up publishing a bunch on lies unless
he himself is sophisticated enough on the subject matter to see what the
authors of the trash are doing to him. And let's face it, if he knew the
subject matter that well, he would not have to rip off their messages
wholesale. To at least be courteous he would re-write them or something.

Seriously, if someone IS doing this, how about some specifics? Let the
group here know who, when, where, etc.


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