> On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Andrew Martin wrote:
>
> > p.s. While I'm griping... Who made the sudden decision to mirror the
> > mailing lists onto News groups. The increase in spam has been dramatic...
> > We discussed this a year, maybe 2, ago and decided quite clearly NOT
>
> Actually, the newsgroups are purely one-directional at this
> time...mail to the lists goes out to the groups, but not vice-versa...spam
> is not coming in through them, except if they are culling the groups for
> email addresses...
>
Ah... Hadn't realised that - just noticed that the increase in spam seemed
to start at the same time...
Andrew
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