Think of them as the usenet version of spam.
On Sat, 31 Aug 2019 15:30:45 -0500, sklawlor@mac.com wrote:
>Hi there. I'm curious about why some messages are posted with random
>letters and numbers for the subject of the post?
>
>I've tried to figure this out for myself but can't seem to get very
>far. Does it have something to do with avoiding copyright issues and
>that sort of thing, and if so, how is one supposed to tell what the
>contents of the post are supposed to be?
>
>I've been trying to understand about this for quite a while since I've
>seen these kinds of things in newsgroups.
>
>another curious thing is that sites like easynews, if I do a search on
>the web for something specific, it shows me a readable subject but if
>I click on the respective group, I see these same random text strings
>for the subject of messages. They, of course, won't help me
>understand this as they say I'm trying to download copyrighted
>material.
>
>Thanks for your help.
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