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**webster72n** · February 23rd 09, 07:26 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general

"Mike M" wrote in message
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FYI The "team", if one is prepared to grace them with such a name,
responsible for maintaining the NGs are external contractors and have been
now for some years. Basically they haven't a clue and the gut feeling is
that team members last just a few weeks before leaving. The result is
that no-one seems to know how the filters work or why many even exist. Few
at Microsoft know anything about NNTP and even less seem to care. There
are however a dedicated few Microsoft employees who go to extraordinary
lengths to try and keep spam and the like to a minimum but I suspect that
even they must be close to despair as it appears that their requests to
the "team" are often ignored.

Moral of the story: Reliance on 'self help'! H.

--
Mike Maltby

Shane wrote:

Well, it does happen automatically, has done for years. And to put
serial offenders in would be easy. But then MS has many times
demonstrated questionable priorities. Cases in point the Privacy
settings in IE, Root Certificates etc. You might say it's very
American, where Business is Inherently 'Good' and if it is not
already legislated against and is obviously intended to profit, it is
allowed to continue despite other things being mercilessly crushed
though one might consider the potential 'harm' of each to be
essentially equivalent. Of course, we do this too, just more
imitatively - although I suspect Jacqui Smith is imitating Mary
Whitehouse rather than the US.
(Just been reading about the California violent video games bill being
overturned by the Federal Court!)

But, really, I've made numerous posts over the years to test it and
include certain words and you'll never see them - or at best you'll
be able to see them flicker into and out of existence like a virtual
particle.