Re: Spam in gnu.utils.bug -- Why?

[Tom Crane]

In article <address@hidden>, address@hidden (Ian Lance Taylor) writes:
> address@hidden (Tom Crane) writes:
> 
>> There is a hugh amount of spam in this newsgroup which is a moderated one. 
>> eg.
>> below is the article list from my local nntp server. Does anybody know why 
>> this
>> stuff is being passed by the moderator?
> 
> The mailing list bug-gnu-utils, which feeds into the newsgroup
> gnu.utils.bug, is not moderated.

Hi,
        Well, according to,
ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/gnu/gnu.utils.bug.Z is is supposed to be
moderated! Also, the following URL shows a spam post whose headers do show it
has passed through the NG's moderator at gnu.org.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=E17D3Hk-0000JR-00%40fencepost.gnu.org&oe=ISO-8859-2&output=gplain

Regards
Tom.

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