"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in
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Lostgallifreyan wrote:

The first we see of this in sci.electronics.components is this hugely
crossposted reply from jeffm. Without that this clutter might never
have entered the group? So, what EXACTLY is spam? What is the
rationale for this posting??


Easynews filtered it for you, but the spammer set the cross posts,
and posted it three times in two days. The idea is that you don't have
to open it, or Jeff's message because you already know the thread is
about spam. In fact, if your newsreader has it, you can killfile the
thread and never see any more replies to that thread.



Thanks. I can ignore it ok, I just thought for a moment that the anti-spam
backlash might be hoist by its own petard, so had to question it. I usually
ignore the spam even without the tools X-news gives me.