From: utopian.galt@IUTOPIA.remove-apg-this

To: The Millionaire
Subject: Re: Synchronet BBS used for d

I've noticed lately that people are starting to use SBBS for drug advertising. That is very sad for the BBS world.

its because someone likely let a spam bot accidently post in dovenet.
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From: utopian.galt@IUTOPIA.remove-r7c-this

To: DaiTengu
Subject: Re: Synchronet BBS used for d

I'm thinking it may not be a bad idea to add a flag to a user that signs up via the web interface, and disallow posting by default for users with that flag in n ew synchronet installs.

Or make it where if you want a nntp account you have to sign in via the
telnet side to get access to the nntp server.
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From: utopian.galt@IUTOPIA.remove-r7c-this

To: Nelgin

These are from the alt.bbs.syncrhonet newsgroup. Unfortunately, when you gate to usenet, you're going to get this crap come through.

Could they be validated messages, I know WWIV has a feature such as Net Validation. The gate host could dump nntp posted messages from alt.bbs.synchronet that are not relevant.
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