The ancient Chinese had a strange custom known as foot-binding. This
practice, which persisted from the tenth to the twentieth century,
caused severe lifelong disability for millions of elderly women.
According to a study conducted by the University of California at San
Francisco in the United States, a large percentage of cases of
osteoporosis in China--a disorder in which the structural integrity of
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practice was widespread and harsher--girls' feet were being bound so
tightly and early in life.

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Posting-Frequency: weekly
Last-modified: 1998/11/10
URL: http://www.killfile.org/faqs/spam.html
Maintainer: tskirvin@killfile.org (Tim Skirvin)
Original-Author: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)

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This article is intended to describe the current consensus spam thresholds
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It is believed that most, if not all, spam cancellers use these terms and
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correctness.

Excessive Multi-Posting (EMP) has the same meaning as the term "spam"
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We have a plentiful selection of newsgroups about network abuse and
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Thank you for following these recommendations. It will make these
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