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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Why just this group?
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Tony Mountifield wrote:

> I subscribe to a number of Web/DB kind of newsgroups (mysql, php, perl,
> javascript, etc.), and out of all of them, it's only comp.lang.javascript
> that appears to have this perennial problem with spam. Just wondering
> why this group gets picked on, while the others are generally clean.

This is a FAQ (more like a FFQ).  There are several reasons for the spam, 
*none* of which is on-topic here (so you should *not* have asked *here*).

One has been named.  Another is that even without the spam this is or at 
least has been a high-traffic group.  Third, JavaScript, and ECMAScript 
implementations in general, have become a "household topic" among software 
developers.  Spammers post where they suspect the most attention.


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