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

[Ian Lance Taylor]

address@hidden (Tom Crane) writes:

> 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!

The newsgroup gnu.utils.bug is moderated only in the sense that
postings are sent to the mailing list address@hidden  All
messages sent to that mailing list are then posted to the newsgroup
gnu.utils.bug.

There is no human being in the loop.  Honest.

Ian