At 04:30 AM 8/15/00 +0200, you wrote:
nevertheless, imagine 500 subscribed users. 10 identical postings by hui liu only today = 5000 mails of junk. if only 100 users would use the news server (i think that most will remain on the mailing list), 1000 headlines received, but 4000 mails sent instead of 5000...