Re: FAQs and Crossposting

lfirrantello@BIX.com
Fri, 07 Feb 1997 19:55:26 -0500 (EST)

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>I just wanted to make the point that if you make FAQs immune to
>despamming, then they'll start spamming "FAQ: FREE CHILD PORN!!!" -
>spammers will have a substantial financial incentive to call
>
I don't have the copies handy, but I ran into some "FAQ"s that were about
some shady sounding MLM (multilevel marketing) set of "businesses". I think
they were in the alt.comp.shareware or a similar newsgroup.

--Mick Brown (lfirrantello@bix.com)

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