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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?


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