16.1 Spam
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This article is from the Sex Movies FAQ, by director@gti.net (The Director) with numerous contributions by others.
16.1 Spam
Any message posted to more than 20 groups is spam. Most spams are off-
topic commercials. Please ignore spam or send e-mail to the poster
and/or to the system administrator from which the spam was posted but do
not post a public reply. If you cannot resist the urge to post a public
reply, which will annoy as many readers as did the original post, please
at least remove phone numbers and addresses so you don't give more
publicity to the original post to which you are objecting. Many spams
will be cancelled but your reply with quoted material will not be,
insuring that the offensive ad remains longer than it otherwise would
have.
Though spam takes more system resources (diskspace) and is hated by
system administrators for that reason, velveeta or inappropriate
crossposting is more disruptive to newsgroups. Particularly, the posting
of provocative messages to diverse or antagonistic newsgroups (e.g.
alt.cat.lovers and alt.animal.haters) tends to provoke flame wars and
argumentative threads that seem to go on forever. Try to ignore
velveeta and inappropriate crossposts. If you respond to a crossposted
message, pay attention to the groups in which it is posted and remove
those in which you do not wish your reply to appear. If you don't you
may find yourself flamed from a group you never heard of before.
Thanks to George Shaffer for this section.
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