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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: Braindamaged test messages clogging the net
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Date: 10 May 88 21:44:53 GMT
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>The posting of two 68 Kbyte messages to test groups is trivial compared to the
>effect of all the echo reflectors out there. Every one is forwarding the damn
>postings back to the sender. Worse, at least one standard reflector script,
>Erik Fair's, echos mail to *EVERY* "Path:" line in the test article. Since the
>article contains 109 Path lines, we mailed the 68K posting to all 109 of them! 

Another thing that's happened recently is that some folks have recently
posted messages cross posted to misc.test. I responded to one without 
noticing which groups it was going to, and have been inundated with the
automatic "ack" messages from around the country ever since. 

That's a guaranteed way to irritate someone. Which, considering the source,
was exactly the point, I believe.


Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

       I come to preach to a religion that doesn't exist. It has no members.
          It has no clergy.  It has no doctrine. It has no collection plate.