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<p>Created page with &quot;Present: TM, RL * Administration ** TM has pinged the proponent of the RFD for comp.lang.go. * Infrastructure ** Starting on 21 August, {{news|comp.ai}} has been experiencing a flood of hundreds of binary articles with randomized Subject and From lines. STUMP&#039;s blocking mechanism is ineffective for this, so TM added a rule to .procmailrc that sends the submissions to /dev/null. The articles appear to originate from Newsgroup Ninja. An abuse report sent to the e-mail a...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Present: TM, RL<br /> <br /> * Administration<br /> ** TM has pinged the proponent of the RFD for comp.lang.go.<br /> * Infrastructure<br /> ** Starting on 21 August, {{news|comp.ai}} has been experiencing a flood of hundreds of binary articles with randomized Subject and From lines. STUMP&#039;s blocking mechanism is ineffective for this, so TM added a rule to .procmailrc that sends the submissions to /dev/null. The articles appear to originate from Newsgroup Ninja. An abuse report sent to the e-mail address in the article headers bounced. TM sent another abuse report to the provider&#039;s support address but has not received a reply.<br /> * Wiki<br /> ** RL has added an article on [[NoCeM]] and a category [[:Category:Usenet infrastructure]].<br /> ** TM finished bringing JE&#039;s [[Getting Started with Usenet]] tutorial up to date and expanded it with a section on using Paul Schleck&#039;s sample .netrc file of active newsgroups.<br /> * Any other business<br /> ** Agreed to cancel the next two meetings due to holidays<br /> <br /> [[Category:Meeting minutes for 2023]]</div>

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