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suggestion: provide a list msg-id's showing the (alleged) abuse in a follow up

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Hey, guys -

Over the past year or more, we've had a spammer on our group.

He's an ideological spammer:

There's a disputed area of Shakespeare research, called the authorship
question -- some people believe William Shakespeare did not actually
write the plays, which scholarly researchers (at universities, with
tenure) largely rule out of court, kind-of like the way biologists
rule creationism out of court.

So, they organize on the web, and on the usenet: and those who (like
myself) disagree with them mostly do it in an occasionally heated way,
but still in the form of a conversation.

The spammer, "Agent Jim," though, has a brief blurb with a few links
to his websites. He claims to have disproven the authorship
challengers once and for all (which is fine), but he keeps reposting
this blurb. Over the past year it's gotten really bad.

We have a couple of arguments for it being spam:

1. It's the exact same post; he only changes his name (sometimes
adopting names similar to people he dislikes in the group).

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"Jamie" wrote in message
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Considering the source of the report, ask us if we care?

Hi all,

I'm interested to know if any sort of policy exists with regard to
posting of binary images (jpg, gif, png, etc)?

I know that binaries are supposed to go in *.binaries groups, but image
binaries seem to be accepted in a far broader spectrum of hierarchies,
alt.sex.*, alt.penthouse.* and *.femdom.* to name a few examples I'm
witnessing at the moment. Should all these be treated as misplaced
binaries or are images generally accepted outside the usual binary
groups?

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In article <4872d2cd$1@news.darkshado.ca>, Jamie wrote:

OK, they allowed you to post one test message. I don't see that as abuse.

That message is a single URL.

That message is a half-page story.

That message is a single URL (same as before).

That message is a several-page rant about you.

I'm not going to bother with the rest, that's enough to indicate that
the messages mostly aren't substantively identical, so adding their
indices demonstrates nothing.

Forgery per se is not abuse of the net.