Reducing Usenet Bandwidth

Sat Feb 9 00:15:28 UTC 2002

Kinda' off topic, but I've seen this gibberish in many spam posts to usenet
groups.  What purpose does it serve?

Thanks,

--Michael

"She may will virtually cook above Ron when the sticky wrinkles
nibble with the sharp river.  One more pathetic fresh weavers
firmly wander as the abysmal frames dream.

Why will you reject the sweet deep tags before Priscilla does?

Hardly any empty envelopes are polite and other short printers are
cheap, but will Pearl irrigate that?  She'd rather cover eventually than
scold with Ophelia's fat dose.

Are you kind, I mean, arriving without handsome candles?  He might
judge the difficult sauce and explain it in front of its light.
Every proud dryers dye Jay, and they wistfully receive Elisa too.  Get your
easily climbing ball inside my mirror.  You won't help me recommending
outside your smart monument.  Some forks fear, excuse, and taste.  Others
angrily sow."

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Stuart" <stuart at tech.org>
To: "Vadim Antonov" <avg at exigengroup.com>
Cc: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: Reducing Usenet Bandwidth

>
> > What USENET needs is a distributed system for collection of per-article
> > and per-sender ratings, and for filtration based on those ratings.  That
> > would be useful for other applications, as well :)
>
> I would argue that what USENET needs is a way for the cost of
> publication to be incurred by the publisher; storing the data in your
> own repository (or repositories) while pointers get flooded through
> the USENET distribution system would give publishers an incentive to
> do garbage collection that they do not have today.
>
> It would almost be like gluing a USENET distribution front-end onto a
> collection of Napster back-ends.
>
> Stephen
>