ml>> in the case of the MYSTIC echo it was because someone saw a few of
 ml>> those gated spams from the newsgroup side...

 JC> There are ~200 messages posted in the past 4 months in Mystic (which is
 JC> almost zero traffic compared to when development cycles are going), and
 JC> not a single one of them is usenet spam.

 JC> There are no occurances of this and no history of newsgroup spam being a
 JC> problem in MYSTIC to justify this move. Especially not only 2 months ago.
 JC> It was a malicious act backed by insane reasoning, and nothing else IMO.
 JC> :( 

And FYI, this is exactly why you noticed what you did. Those links that
de-linked from the echo blocked the traffic from getting to any backbone
distrobution systems.

This should now be fixed.

Regards,
Nick
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