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From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Subject: Re: Spamming
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Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 16:41:13 GMT
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In article <800699866snz@chatham.demon.co.uk> ohgs@chatham.demon.co.uk writes:
>The recent surge of spammed nonsense on this usegroup prompts the question:
>is a spam effectively a virus? Once posted to enough usegroups, enough
>people will either tell it to piss off or add to it, thus ensuring its
>growth. One can see - from "son of baby killing jesus II" - that spams can 
>reproduce. They can merge and exchange mutant memes. 

Yes and you've become infected, too.

May I suggest the simple kill-line:

/christ/a:j

(assuming you use the same "rn" mail reader that I have)


