Evgenij Barsukov wrote:
I would not call it a spam,
as topic of the book is relevant to this group
and from looking at the table of contents it appears to be interesting.
Yevgen

That's one metric.

One time announcements of production relevant to
news group topic are not prohibited by the [charter].

There other parameters that determine what is spam spewing:
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:P3WQsOttF84J:www.stopspam.org/usenet/mmf/breidbart.html+Monty.Python+*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-Baked-Beans-*-*+*-*-*-*-will-*-mark-a-crossposted-article-as-read+Multiposting+Excessive-Multi-Posting+*-*-*-*-*-it's-good-behaviour+originally-*-*-*-EMPs-only

This one doesn't pass the stink test.

"JeffM" wrote in
oups.com:

Evgenij Barsukov wrote:
I would not call it a spam,
as topic of the book is relevant to this group
and from looking at the table of contents it appears to be
interesting.
Yevgen

That's one metric.

One time announcements of production relevant to
news group topic are not prohibited by the [charter].

There other parameters that determine what is spam spewing:
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:P...pam.org/usenet
/mmf/breidbart.html+Monty.Python+*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-Baked-Beans-*-
*+*-*-*-*-will-*-mark-a-crossposted-article-as-read+Multiposting+Excess
ive-Multi-Posting+*-*-*-*-*-it's-good-behaviour+originally-*-*-*-EMPs-o
nly

This one doesn't pass the stink test.



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??

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.


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prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in
:

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.

Lostgallifreyan wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in
:

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.


You can set a single filter for the word "spam", and if someone
reports it, you won't even see their warnings.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida