[net.rumor] Automatic messages? What messages?

ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Ken Arromdee) (05/21/86)

>I've heard a rumor that some sites send automatic responses to articles
>posted on net.test.  Can anyone confirm this?
>
>Seriously, I've posted here and haven't received anything.  We're also
>losing tons of news, so perhaps the loss is both ways.  Therefore, this
>article really IS a test!  (How bizarre.)

Yes; I receive about 5-6 on the average every time I post something...
(in this case I don't care, since I won't be around when I get the test
echoes, though I WILL have to do a lot of mail deletion come September....
and a summer's worth of Bizarre-People should make interesting reading...)
-- 
"We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to
socialism, because socialism is defunct.  It dies all by iself.  The bad thing
is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?" -Fidel Castro

Kenneth Arromdee
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