Well, actually something that popped up in this group. Here's a part
of it:
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Path:
news.sci.fi!news.cc.tut.fi!news2.cc.tut.fi!newsfeed1.funet.fi!news.kolumbus.fi!news-stkh.gip.net!news-raspail.gip.net!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!169.132.11.200!news.idt.net!ix.netcom.com!news

Newsgroups: alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk,
alt.fan.karl-malden.nose, demon.local, demon.service, comp.lang.c,
alt.flame.{*filter*}s,
Subject: Re: Library Resource Books
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 19:45:40 -0500
Organization: The Kraft Cheese & Macaroni Club
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NNTP-Posting-Host: dsm-ia1-15.ix.netcom.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-NETCOM-Date: Wed Jul 29 6:42:26 PM PDT 1998
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win16; U)
Xref: news.sci.fi alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk:83494
alt.fan.karl-malden.nose:203673 demon.local:138831 demon.service:58797
comp.lang.c:261579 alt.flame.{*filter*}s:86009

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All right people, back on task.  Why was comp.lang.c taken out of the
header?
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The last follow-up in particular is quite interesting. Seems these
guys are purposefully wasting the bandwidth for some groups.

    AriL
--
Glossary: delimiter = Someone who says, "Stop! That's enough!"

Obviously.  And some of them are deliberately taking us out of the
header too.  It's not like thay are all in agreement about which groups
to trash.

--

(supporter of the campaign against grumpiness in c.l.c)
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong.
No matter how fast light travels it finds that darkness has always
got there first, and is waiting for it." --Terry Pratchett

I wonder... did someone get ticked off at comp.lang.c,  specifically?  

Another possibility that's occured to me is that demon is conducting an AI
experiment,  using USENET at a testbed.  Any thoughts?

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E-mail: lmert at c3net.net

I am a hacker,  part of an open society sworn to create and study,
but never destroy.  We know the truth about operating systems.  In the
end,  there can be only one.  May it be GNU/Linux, the OpenSource OS.  

...

I don't know. It just seemed to get roped in somewhere along the line.

I doubt if this attack originates at Demon. If any Demon customers were
shown to be doing this they would almost certainly get thrown out. It
appears that demon.local got badly attacked but that isn't a newsgroup I
tend to look at.

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