From: "Netsurge"    
      
   On 11-05-04 8:46 PM, Access Denied wrote:   
   >    To: Mercyful Fate   
   >    Re: Re: Ping   
   >    By: Mercyful Fate to Netsurge on Wed May 04 2011 01:09 am   
   >   
   >   >  newsgroups, i usually just ignore as they seem to be riddled with ad's   
   and   
   >   >  spam.. sorta a waste..   
   >   
   > Odd. I don't think I've ever seen spam or ads in this base.   
      
   I have never allowed the bbs-scene.* usenet grouping to be backboned    
   across the nntp peers.  The only place you can grab any of the    
   bbs-scene.* or scinet.* newsgroups is on news.bbs-scene.org.  That    
   pretty much eliminates all spam.   
      
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   frank aka netsurge   
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