[H-GEN] Telstra may be facing a Usenet Death Penalty

[Snowy Angelique Maslov aka 'Snowpony']

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On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Mark Suter wrote:

> As reported in _The Australian_ (zwit.org/72754), a Request For
> Discussion (RFD) has been issued regarding Telstra.  Read the RFC
> at zwit.org/12349 (these are redirects).
> 
> It seems that something like 60% of posts from Telstra are
> spam...

This was reported on slashdot.org [1] last week.  When I saw this I just
couldn't stop laughing.  It's all true of course - Telstra's policy on new
servers seem to be "as long as it's up - we don't care".  Hopefully this will
give them the much needed wakeup call.

[1] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/07/0159207&mode=thread&tid=95

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