[High Plains Thumper[_2_]]

Han Leiter wrote:
stv wrote:

From Slashdot -- I've used asterisks to the links in this text.
Last addr is of the Slashdot article itself.

Technology: Spam Causes Microsoft To Kill Newsgroups Posted by
CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 05, @09:32AM from the
good-bye-.die.die.die dept.

eldavojohn writes
"Some 2,000 public and 2,200 private newsgroups devoted to and
managed by Microsoft support are going to be phased out in favor of
forums* because of newsgroup spam. The Register calls it 'killing
newsgroups' but Microsoft eloquently calls it 'the evolution of
communities.'** Always managing to spin it in a positive light!
Let's hope the spam posts and voting bots in their forums remain
controllable."

* http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05..._kills_groups/

** http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/05... 28Slashdot%29

It' probably has something to do with a chap called Roy Schestowitz
of the former www.boycottnovell.com which is now
http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

He regularly spams the Microsoft groups with his Linux and open
source software propaganda.

His posts to usenet alone are over 10,000 per month and consist
mostly of him promoting himself or his sites. He is also active on
slashdot, digg and other forums and usually posts under a host of
different names to avoid being banned. He is either being paid by the
click or is on some mission of mercy assigned to him by the core foss
supporters.

Oh, lookey, another Flatfish nymshift:

From: Han Leiter
Newsgroups: rec.audio.pro
NNTP-Posting-Host: 5jgPEq0j1MIYuhDYUeE0Aw.user.speranza.aioe.org

(Link for above

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...59fe2cd5463e6a

and

From: Hank
Subject: Linux and World Class Recording.
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 22:46:59 -0400
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,rec.audio.pro
NNTP-Posting-Host: 5jgPEq0j1MIYuhDYUeE0Aw.user.speranza.aioe.org

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....a045e7d9d29bed

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