Don't simply post a link to the download because most people want to read about the freeware program first. HTML .This is another bandwidth waster. HTML takes longer to download than plain text. You should configure your news reader so that it will only send messages in text. Multiple posts of the same message .
Most people find pornography offensive.
Pornography is spammed to lots of newsgroups, but usually porno-spammers select their groups based on which ones they think are most likely to tolerate them. Referal credit posts . Invariably these people include the account number they have with the site and ask that we give them credit for referring us if we sign up with the site. The other thing that they don't realize is that if only one of us files a complaint with the site in question, that site will almost always have a policy of cancelling the spammer's account for engaging in usenet abuse. Spammers don't care who they get upset, and callously proceed with the potential of profit motivating their lack of ethics.