In article >,
ost says...
> On 18 Feb 2006 22:59:46 GMT, ann > wrote:
>
> >TDKozan > wrote in
> :
> >
> >> Steve Wertz wrote:
> >>
> >>> No. There have been people booted from RR servers for
> >>> repetitive abuse just like this. It is a clear violation of
> >>> their Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy.
> >>>
> >>> Most ISP's I normally wouldn't bother with, but RR does take
> >>> action in many cases.
> >>>
> >>> Complaining to Yahoo won't help as that's just his email
> >>> address. He didn't use their service to convey his message.
> >>> But *do* complain to RR.
> >>
> >> Hey, Steve: Do you have a link for Road Kill's TOS? I've
> >> spent the best twelve minutes of my life looking and came up
> >> empty. I LARTED their abuse staff anyway but it will probably
> >> end up in dev.nul.
> >>
> >> BTW, belated thanks for turning me on to News Proxy some time
> >> back.
>
> I forgot about that project.
>
> For anybody else wanting to block spammers and trolls, there's a
> utility called nfilter/newsproxy he
> http://www.io.com/~sqwertz/nfilter/nfilterforafb.html
>
> It takes a little bit of tweaking, but it allows for filters that
> most newsreaders won't handle. (Note that this was specifically
> for another group, but will work for all groups)
>
> >Here's part from Time Warner/Kansas City/RoadRunner
> >
> >"Article posts should be on-topic to the particular newsgroup
> >charter."
> >
> >http://www.timewarnercable.com/kansa...licies/newspol
> >icy.html
>
> Not to most (probably all) of those articles were copyrighted.
>
> It is a violation to:
> "to post or transmit material in violation with copyright laws;"

Not if all the links are posted like they were. Filter me or shut up!

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>
> Which will get him in a lot more trouble than just losing his RR