@hrheingold oh wow, that was the impetus for the creation of the Kill File.
TIL.

@hrheingold Back in the day, I filed complaints to the Tennessee Bar leading to the disbarment of those two!

@hrheingold ah, Howard, bless you for digging this out, and writing it in the first place!

"If every newsgroup becomes a hodgepodge of advertisements along with the freely exchanged information and conversation, then it no longer makes sense to have six thousand newsgroups, and every person who uses the Net loses the ability to filter information that way."

And

- a practice known on the Net as "spamming"