What is Spam

There's a formula. So many "substantially similar" messages x so many groups, over so many days, comes up with an index number. Go over the index number, and it's automatically spam, no matter whether it's on topic for those groups or not.

Actually e-mail spam is defined as any unsolicited commercial e-mail... regardless of how carefully the spammer has tried to find people who are actually interested and/or filter out the uninterested.

I *believe* this would be more better classified as the preliminary provocation to a food fight.

There's a formula. So many "substantially similar" messages x so many groups, over so many days, comes up with an index number. Go over the index number, and it's automatically spam, no matter whether it's on topic for those groups or not.

Actually e-mail spam is defined as any unsolicited commercial e-mail... regardless of how carefully the spammer has tried to find people who are actually interested and/or filter out the uninterested.

I *believe* this would be more better classified as the preliminary provocation to a food fight.

Also, you have to tell OE if you want it in mail messages, news messages, or both. For some reason, I can't make OE add a sig line to any message that I reply to. But it will add a sig line to any message I originate.

Not the newsreader, but my ISP's news server, which isn't very reliable, so I have a backup... so a news run goes like this:

1) post to ISP news server 2) download (5 or 6 groups) from ISP news server 3) post to special purpose news server 4) retrieve (2 groups) from special purpose server 5) check if queued message ID's are already in use upstream. If not, then post to back up server. 6) retrieve any messages not retrieved in 2) from backup

If the propagation from 1 is slow enough that the backup server doesn't find it, then it modifies the Message-ID and posts a duplicate. I can't find a way to make fetchnews post to only one server except to actually be there during the run and interupt it during step 3 or 4, wait a minute or so, and restart.

Also, if my backup didn't insist on assigning its own Message-IDs, then the duplicates wouldn't occur.

Every time you fix something through automation, a situation not envisioned by the automators will pop up. (I do see Michele's posts these days, so having two servers has at least gained me that much. ;-)

well. dang, that ought to make it well worth the trouble!!!! ;>)

"Steve Ackman" (I do see Michele's posts these days, so having

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