What if anything is going to be done about spamming of *.answers

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> It is my understanding that a certain unscrupulous company has begun marking
> commercial articles as approved for posting to groups such as rec.answers.
>
> Do the news.answers faq moderation team plan on doing anything beyond
> cancelling such postings?

Could you be more specific (give Subject lines and Message-ID's)?
While we don't always patrol each *.answers extraordinarily carefully,
we do read them ourselves to watch for articles that don't seem to
belong, and our archival scripts do complain about postings that show
up in *.answers which we don't have in our records as being approved
by us. I don't recall seeing any flurries of commercial articles with
forged approvals cross-posted into rec.answers recently, nor has our
script noticed anything in particular.

Ping Huang, member of the *.answers moderation team
(news-answers-request@MIT.EDU)

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