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NEWSGROUP "SPAM" - No Such Thing. Newsgroups are public.

What is "SPAM"? Unsolicited messages? Then everyone that
post to a newsgroups is "spamming" unless they are responding
to a direct question.

What is Off Topic? Anything that isn't relevant to the
group description? Then 99% of newsgroup posters are
spammers. You've never posted an off topic comment?
You can't lie. It's archived in Google.

Links to websites are spam? Then what are those links
in your signature? OH....it's ok to "SPAM" a little bit.
As a matter of fact its ok to "SPAM" a lot because you
include those links in your signature everytime you
post.

If you want a MODERATED group. Shut the hell up and go
join one or create one yourself.

NEWSGROUPS ARE PUBLIC.


Then, just do as you will. Morons usually just get killfiled, but then
there are enough newbies and clueless to keep the trolls going. And then
there is the TOS violation letter to the ISP. I have personally had many
people's accounts shut down by just sending a copy of their drivel to
and suggest that they Google the person and see what they
have filed. Most of the time it is a home alone juvenile posting on
parent's computer.

Yes, newsgroups are public, just like talking no the street is okay. But,
just like talking on the street, people have the right to choose which
people they talk to and which conversations they enter into.

But, alas, sometimes they lack the sense to do so.

HTH, but I doubt it.

STeve