Re: Simon is impersonating me.

13.06.2007 02:59:51, Richard Bakos wrote:

Rudy Velthuis [TeamB] wrote:

If we had not cancelled them, the newsgroup would be pretty unusable
though, since no one would be able to see valid mesages between all
the noise, and that is clearly disrupting, if not denying a service.

There's a large dissimilarity between a moderate amount of SPAM

We see moderate amounts of spam every day. This was not a moderate
amount and more than enough, if left alone, to deny people the service
this newsgroup provides. Not your classical network-clogging DoS, but a
DoS anyway.

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