Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!percival!gary From: gary@percival.UUCP (Gary Wells) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: A serious dilemma for the net Summary: Who is providing them a feed? Maybe it should experience an interuption. Message-ID: <1374@percival.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 88 02:09:09 GMT References: <7106@gryphon.CTS.COM> Reply-To: gary@percival.UUCP (Gary Wells) Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR. Lines: 23 In article <7106@gryphon.CTS.COM> mhnadel@gryphon.CTS.COM (Miriam Nadel) writes: >Greetings. There has emerged, what I feel to be a big problem. For >a couple of weeks, the net has been plagued with postings from several >"entities" at the Portal System (tm) in California. The postings are > {Details of problem and suggested remedy deleted} The other option is for whoever is providing them a newsfeed to (briefly) interrupt the service. That ought to 1)get their attention and 2)stifle any further outbursts of the "_we_ are the dominent force on the net" variety. I'd hate to see anyone lose a feed permanently, but it is one way to stop the deluge of trash. I wonder how long those people would continue paying to mail garbage to each other? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Still working on _natural_ intelligence. gary@percival (...!tektronix!percival!gary)