Subj : Re: Mystic BBS v1.11 Alpha 1 RELEASED
To : James Coyle
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Mon Oct 19 2015 07:24 pm
ml>> in the case of the MYSTIC echo it was because someone saw a few of
ml>> those gated spams from the newsgroup side...
JC> There are ~200 messages posted in the past 4 months in Mystic (which is
JC> almost zero traffic compared to when development cycles are going), and
JC> not a single one of them is usenet spam.
JC> There are no occurances of this and no history of newsgroup spam being a
JC> problem in MYSTIC to justify this move. Especially not only 2 months ago.
JC> It was a malicious act backed by insane reasoning, and nothing else IMO.
JC> :(
And FYI, this is exactly why you noticed what you did. Those links that
de-linked from the echo blocked the traffic from getting to any backbone
distrobution systems.
