On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:29:38 -0500, Tim McNamara
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[email protected]> may have said:
>In article <[email protected]>,
> Crescentius Vespasianus <[email protected]> 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.
I saw enough to lart them mercilessly. They tapered off after a
while. 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.
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