The discussion on alt.current-events.net-abuse seemed to indicate that the claim of "Just 10" above is a slight understandment. The newsgroups seem to have been hit alphabetically, and I believe the total count was in the hundreds.
--Paul J. Ste. Marie pstemari@well.sf.ca.us, pstemari@erinet.com
The individual who posted the first hysterical message about Carol's alleged spam in a.c-e.n-a leaped to the conclusion that it was being posted to a large number of groups because one of the newsgroups posted to had a very low ordinal in the alphabetical list of all newsgroups. The message itself, which he quoted, was only cross-posted to the 10 newsgroups specified. I believe the CancelMoose threshold for an official spam is 50 newsgroups. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ mpd@netcom.com $ via Finger. $