death of newsgroups (Microsoft closing their newsgroups)

[Kenneth Tilton]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:24:12 -0400, Kenneth Tilton wrote:
> 
>> The moral? If you look for the spam, you'll find it.
> 
> And if you *don't* look for spam, you can be sure that some goose will 
> reply to it and get it past your filters. Thanks for that Kenneth, if 
> that is your name and you're not a Xah Lee sock-puppet.

Let me see if I have this right. Your technique for reducing unwanted 
traffic is to openly insult one of the participants? That is how you 
clean things up? Because most people on Usenet respond well to personal 
insults and hush up? I have so much to learn!

Or was it this?

> 
> Followups set to a black hole.
> 
> 

That works? Amazing.

Here, I'll show you what spam looks like: my steadily-improving 
revolution in learning Algebra: http://teamalgebra.com/

kt

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