[Info-vax] This is for the folks who get comp.os.vms via the Info-VAX mailing list

[Dan Cross]

In article <uktrd0$ofn$1 at panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>>
>>Scott, is this using Panix's NNTP server? I'm seeing
>>substantially more spam than that on this end coming through
>>news.panix.com.
>
>A lot of it comes in but most of it disappears off the server within an
>hour or so since panix is accepting the nocem cancels.  Panix does not 
>forward it to downstream sites but if you read news on a panix shell machine
>you may see groups with thousands of messages but come to read them and find
>only one or two are left.  Sometimes you will see a block of spam.. stop
>reading that group and come back in an  hour and it will likely be gone.

Interesting.  I see it now.  I have:

/^message-id:.*googlegroups.*/h:j

In my trn News/KILL file, so I wasn't seeing (most) of the spam
anyway, but it's good to know it's being cleared off of the NNTP
server as well.

	- Dan C.