Any Ideas on Turning off the Spammer?

Dudley Henriques wrote:

Saw the movie. Fabulous guy Monro, and probably one of Anthony Hopkins'
best works recreating him.

I agree. And nice to see Hopkins play a character who was not evil.
Next thing you know, they will be casting Jack Nicholson as a
character with no loose screws!

DH


Montblack wrote:
("Dudley Henriques" wrote)
Oh I can avoid the yard chores all right. They're inanimate. It's my WIFE
looking for me to do the yard chores I can't avoid!!! I've tried 3
different makes of running shoes so far. I think New Balance might turn
out to be the "weapon of choice" :-))


Or you can adopt the Burt Monro method of lawn care. g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwqDHIByRec
World's Fastest Indian (2005)


Paul-Mont



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On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:48:34 -0500, "Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in
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... it seems a second wave of the crap made it though Supernews' filters.
I've got about 50 today and this is the first I've seen of it.

I saw some this morning.

Maybe a couple of dozen.

Pretty easy to tell by eye which were real r.a.p threads
and which were not.

Marty
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Big-8 newsgroups: humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, talk.*
See http://www.big-8.org for info on how to add or remove newsgroups.

I took the others suggestion and downloaded NFilter and I have none of
it. It is great, easy to setup, and free! I would suggest everyone
do the same. You can even add kill filters based upon the From line.
If you do not like certain posts by certain people, POOF, they no
longer exist.

Morgans wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
...
Keep in mind I'm not taking a dig at anyone. This is just my way of
dealing with Usenet. If the situation changed as the poster below has
indicated by saying 18K posts have been spammed on one forum, I
would for sure be taking a close look at solving that in whatever
way was needed. DH

I show 2149 posts on this forum, since late last night, to 8 PM. That is a
lot of scrolling, too.

I guess SN is doing a better job than I thought. My total message count from
5pm central to 8:30am this morning was only 127.

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:00:27 -0400, Morgans wrote:

This is weird. I had all those 2149 posts showing on my side bar as being
unread messages. I went to another group and came back, and now it is
down to 143; all in the space of 10 minutes.

That's pretty much what I saw, but it's what I expected to see. I knew
that someone was canceling out those articles at the server. That's
probably what was occurring behind the scenes for you too.

- Andrew

("Mike Flying 8" wrote)
I took the others suggestion and downloaded NFilter and I have none of it.
It is great, easy to setup, and free! I would suggest everyone do the
same.


http://www.nfilter.org/
It doesn't mention XP ...?


Paul-Mont

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:03:52 -0500, Gig 601XL Builder wrote:

Your theory, on the other hand, makes a great leap that it could be some
secret method of encrypted communication.

This is no great leap. It's today's version of code via
classified/personal ads.

Personally, though, I think it a little too "obvious". A more likely
USENET vector would be to grab some image in a binary group (or from some
website or wherever), tweak it with the encrypted message but at the least
significant bits so the image quality loss is minimal, and then repost it.

An image posted to a binary group would get no notice, whereas a flood of
postings like this is noticeable.

Secret communication isn't just about hiding the content; it's also about
hiding the fact that a message is even occurring.

- Andrew

Montblack wrote:
("Mike Flying 8" wrote)
I took the others suggestion and downloaded NFilter and I have none of it.
It is great, easy to setup, and free! I would suggest everyone do the
same.


http://www.nfilter.org/
It doesn't mention XP ...?


Don't worry... it works with XP. I'm running it with XP Pro SP2.



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Andrew Gideon wrote:
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:03:52 -0500, Gig 601XL Builder wrote:

Your theory, on the other hand, makes a great leap that it could be some
secret method of encrypted communication.

This is no great leap. It's today's version of code via
classified/personal ads.

Personally, though, I think it a little too "obvious". A more likely
USENET vector would be to grab some image in a binary group (or from some
website or wherever), tweak it with the encrypted message but at the least
significant bits so the image quality loss is minimal, and then repost it.

An image posted to a binary group would get no notice, whereas a flood of
postings like this is noticeable.

Secret communication isn't just about hiding the content; it's also about
hiding the fact that a message is even occurring.

- Andrew


You devious fellow you!!!!
:-)

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Dudley Henriques

Andrew Gideon wrote:
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:03:52 -0500, Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
This is no great leap. It's today's version of code via
classified/personal ads.

- Andrew

It a great leap when compared to Mr. Henriques' theory that it was some guy
getting his jollies. To which Larry demanded proof of that theory.

("Mike Flying 8" wrote)
I took the others suggestion and downloaded NFilter and I have none of it.
It is great, easy to setup, and free! I would suggest everyone do the
same.


http://www.nfilter.org/
It doesn't mention XP ...?


In addition to the 95/98/NT, it works with XP and Vista.

Thanks for the suggestion MS.