What was all the wierd posts?

[Colbyt]

What the heck was all that crap that cluttered this newsgroup tonight?

Colbyt

[Joseph Meehan]

It appears to have been some sort of attack by someone who may have been unhappy or just bored.

[Dan Espen]

That was computer generated nonsense. It's not uncommon to see a paragraph or 2 of that stuff in spam to through the filters off.

Apparently from someone that has a beef with 'Dan C'. He's posted here and I've seen him post over in the Linux groups. The Linux groups were hit too.

[ameijers]

Guess my ISP's garbage filters do work after all- I didn't see a bit of it, knock on wood.

aem sends...

[maradcliff]

They are all coming from here: (be sure to complain, I did) [e-mail]

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