• Blow me down maties! This newsgroup be but a retirement village.

    From From the Crow's Nest@from-the-crows-nest@high-seas.invalid to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet,news.admin.net-abuse.misc on Fri Sep 19 07:01:25 2025
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    Ye came 'ere 'opin' t' see captains o' Usenet spam-fightin'. An' ye
    found instead a retirement village. A retirement village displayin'
    notices from o'er a quarter-century ago, way aft in th' now-toothless
    retirees' 'eyday.

    Posting-Frequency: weekly
    Last-modified: 1998/11/10

    An ole out o' date postin' from o'er a quarter-century ago.

    Th' postin' ain't fer our information. Th' postin' be fer th'
    long-retired poster t' remember 'is 'eyday.

    The newsgroup news.announce.newusers
    <URL:news:news.announce.newusers>

    That thar newsgroup be abandoned fer o'er eleven yahrs.

    Th' postin' ain't fer our information. Th' postin' be fer th'
    long-retired poster t' remember 'is 'eyday.

    "What is Usenet", by Salzenberg, Spafford and Moraes <URL:ftp://ftp.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/what-is/part1>

    That thar link be dead fer many a long yahr. Dead as a seaman gone t'
    Davy Jones's locker.

    Th' postin' ain't fer our information. Th' postin' be fer th'
    long-retired poster t' remember 'is 'eyday.

    "What is Usenet? A second opinion.", by Vielmetti <URL:ftp://ftp.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/what-is/part2>

    That thar link also be dead fer many a long yahr. Th' postin' ain't fer
    our information. Th' postin' be fer th' long-retired poster t' remember
    'is 'eyday.

    "FAQ: Advertising on Usenet: How To Do It, How Not To Do It", by Furr <URL:ftp://ftp.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/advertising/how-to/part1>

    That thar link also be dead fer many a long yahr.

    "A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community", by Von Rospach, et al <URL:ftp://ftp.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/primer/part1>

    That thar link also be dead fer many a long yahr.

    "Rules for posting to Usenet", by Horton, Spafford & Moraes. <URL:ftp://ftp.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/posting-rules/part1>

    That thar link also be dead fer many a long yahr.

    "Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette", by Templeton et al <URL:ftp://ftp.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/emily-postnews/part1>

    That thar link also be dead fer many a long yahr.

    RFC 1855 - Netiquette Guidelines
    <URL:http://rfc.net/rfc1855.html>

    That thar link be o' no use fer many a long yahr. Th' site be scuppered
    by cybersquatters.

    Th' postin' ain't fer our information. Th' postin' be fer th'
    long-retired poster t' remember 'is 'eyday.

    The above FAQs are also mirrored at various sites, including as mirror.aol.com

    That thar site be scuttled, sunk an' gone.

    ftp.uni-paderborn.de

    That thar site be scuttled, sunk an' gone.

    hwarang.postech.ac.kr

    That thar site be scuttled, sunk an' gone.

    ftp.hk.super.net

    That thar site be scuttled, sunk an' gone.

    Th' postin' ain't fer our information. Th' postin' be fer th'
    long-retired poster t' remember 'is 'eyday.

    etc.
    --
    "But one man of her crew alive,
    What put to sea with seventy-five." -- Robert Louis Stevenson



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