Is there any truth in this above?

If there is any, who took that vote and when?
It certainly was not the readers of this news group!

And if whoever this is, makes good on their threat what
"other arrangements" can we take?

--
Jean-Claude Beaudoin

As far as I know this is pure spamtroll.  Virtually every group I check
in to -- including popular ones like rec.arts.tv -- have had this posting.
There is also apparently a cancelbot that follows them around, because
we never see the original on this server!  Only resposes from worried folks
like you... (:-/)

(Also I think they always have some sort of nonsense line like the one
I deleted.  Maybe the troller uses it to trace the responses or something.)

Hope that eases your mind.

Cheers,
                                        -- Pete --

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 02:11:22 -0500, Jean-Claude Beaudoin

My *guess* is not. It's one way to generate hostile spam for
the person allegedly posting the notice and/or to generate
unwanted traffic in the newsgroup which discusses group
creation/deletion.

There is/are person(s) known to do this as an attack.

Be very careful when replying to such a thing to check which
groups it is cross-posted to, and set followups if necessary.

--
Jonathan L Cunningham