did Sheldon's ghost kill rbt?

Tim McNamara wrote:
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Crescentius Vespasianus wrote:

For a couple of weeks the earthlink news servers blocked all posts
from rbt, rbr. It looks like a massive spam attack of hundreds of
posts selling watches and other garbage, had hit those two
newsgroups.

Weird. I saw basically none of those.

Me either. I think the thread title is disrespectful to Sheldon.

Werehatrack wrote:
I didn't check the Earthstink feed; that company's support for
Usenet boils down to "why bother, nobody uses it anyway." They've
failed to update their servers for weeks at a time more than once.
When I griped at their tech support about one such incident a while
back, the droid did not even know what Usenet was, and could not grasp
the idea that it involved a server under Earthlink's control which was
not fetching any feeds.

I had the same experience with Earthlink support. They had no idea what
Usenet was, or what I was talking about when I told them that their
servers had not been updated for more than a week. I gave up and changed
ISPs.

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catzz66 wrote:

Tim McNamara wrote:
In article ,
Crescentius Vespasianus wrote:

For a couple of weeks the earthlink news servers blocked all posts
from rbt, rbr. It looks like a massive spam attack of hundreds of
posts selling watches and other garbage, had hit those two
newsgroups.

Weird. I saw basically none of those.

Me either. I think the thread title is disrespectful to Sheldon.

You are at liberty to change the title.

--
Michael Press

Michael Press wrote:
In article ,
catzz66 wrote:

Tim McNamara wrote:
In article ,
Crescentius Vespasianus wrote:

For a couple of weeks the earthlink news servers blocked all posts
from rbt, rbr. It looks like a massive spam attack of hundreds of
posts selling watches and other garbage, had hit those two
newsgroups.
Weird. I saw basically none of those.
Me either. I think the thread title is disrespectful to Sheldon.

You are at liberty to change the title.


I know, but felt it needed to be said and associated with the thread.

On Apr 10, 10:04*am, wrote:
On Apr 9, 10:15*pm, Crescentius Vespasianus
wrote:

For a couple of weeks the earthlink news
servers blocked all posts from rbt, rbr.
* It looks like a massive spam attack of
hundreds of posts selling watches and
other garbage, had hit those two newsgroups.

I'm an infrequent poster and access r.b.t through Google Groups. *I
would guess that over half the postings of the last few weeks are
sales spam. * Quite annoying. *Hard to believe that marketing
technique results in any sales. *I would also think it leaves the
spammers open to hacking by revenge-minded individuals.

it's not just rbt, it's a lot of groups.

I still fail to see why anyone would *want* a fake watch; it's not
like the watch you wear is likely to impress anyone anyway. And
anyone that shallow should just DIAF anyway.

nate

(wearing a watch that's significantly older than I am right now,
because I like it. Nobody's noticed yet, and it's almost 4 PM.)

On Apr 10, 3:02*am, Werehatrack wrote:
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 22:59:08 -0700, "Mike Jacoubowsky"
may have said:

| For a couple of weeks the earthlink news
| servers blocked all posts from rbt, rbr.
| *It looks like a massive spam attack of
| hundreds of posts selling watches and
| other garbage, had hit those two newsgroups.

What? Off-topic and irrelevant posts on RBR? Send in the Marines!

Can't. *They're busy. *All we got is clowns.

Don't bother - they're here.

In article ,
catzz66 wrote:

Michael Press wrote:
In article ,
catzz66 wrote:

Tim McNamara wrote:
In article ,
Crescentius Vespasianus wrote:

For a couple of weeks the earthlink news servers blocked all posts
from rbt, rbr. It looks like a massive spam attack of hundreds of
posts selling watches and other garbage, had hit those two
newsgroups.
Weird. I saw basically none of those.
Me either. I think the thread title is disrespectful to Sheldon.

You are at liberty to change the title.


I know, but felt it needed to be said and associated with the thread.

Changing the title does not change the threading.
Threading is accomplished through the References:
header line. Here are some of the header lines
from your message to which I am now replying.

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Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: recent spam, title changed.
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:26:14 -0500
Lines: 19
Message-ID:
References:
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213)
In-Reply-To:
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--
Michael Press

Michael Press wrote:
I think the thread title is disrespectful to Sheldon.
You are at liberty to change the title.

I know, but felt it needed to be said and associated with the thread.

Changing the title does not change the threading.
Threading is accomplished through the References:
header line. Here are some of the header lines
from your message to which I am now replying.

_____________________________________
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: recent spam, title changed.
...
_____________________________________


I understand. I'm on Thunderbird and one of the options is to view only
unread threads, in which case changing the subject might make it appear
to be a different heading, if it's at the top of the unread threads. I
appreciate your comments, though.