Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote:
> The reason for all the spam you saw is that Mozilla.Org refuses to move
> there news groups to a secure server. like the Netscape Newsgroups are.
>
> I follow several groups on secnews.netscape.com and we might see a piece
> of spam once every year and a half.
>
> Yet there is spam on any of the Mozilla groups at least daily. And
> appears almost on a weekly schedule.
>
> There are certain pieces of Spam that I can almost guarantee the day it
> will show up on the Mozilla groups. And in some case rotates daily
> between the Mozilla groups i follow. general, .java, .mac, .wishlist.
IIRC the mozilla groups are going to be moved to a new (probably secure)
server, most likely at the same time as the renaming of the hierarchy.
Instead of netscape.public.mozilla.*, it'll be just mozilla.* The full
renaming plan can be found here: http://www.mozilla.org.uk/newsgroups.txt
