Xref: utzoo alt.config:114 news.config:590 news.admin:2128 Path: utzoo!hoptoad!mejac!decwrl!ucbvax!pasteur!ames!ncar!oddjob!matt From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Java Man) Newsgroups: alt.config,news.config,news.admin Subject: Re: Braindamaged test messages clogging the net Message-ID: <14744@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> Date: 11 May 88 18:02:36 GMT References: <255@comdesign.UUCP> <1218@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <22716@pyramid.pyramid.com> <3266@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu><3757@cbmvax.UUCP> Organization: Just Things `n' Stuff, Et Cetera, Ltd. Lines: 9 grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes: ) Are you sure these agents of chaos deliberatly set ) out to create a net.catastrophe? Suppose there had been no automatic responding programs at all. Would it then have been a *good* idea to repost and re-repost all the articles from a "test" newsgroup? Matt Crawford