On 03/01/2019 07:40, Paul wrote:
David B. wrote:
On 02/01/2019 20:42, Paul wrote:

A binary server, a block account,
a source of headers, automatic download tools, and so on.
For example, one person admitted to automatically downloading
around 1TB of stuff that way... in a single month. Basically,
his broadband connection pulled posts at max_rate for the
entire month, and those were all movies. You don't have to
torrent them. He probably doesn't even know what movies
he got.

That sounds as if it was an illegal action. I trust it wasn't YOU who
did it.

Via information found on DSLReports.

Ah! I used to read a lot here! http://www.dslreports.com/

Why do you think, at one time, UK ISPs were throttling
or blocking port 119 ? USENET movies was the reason.
(Sufficient traffic, that they were trying to traffic
shape it.) But, it also affected the ability of people
like yourself, to post TEXT to USENET. Other countries
didn't have a defacto USENET port 119 block in place.
At the time, it seemed to be a UK-unique feature.

What also made it tough, is innocent USENET people
trying to get tech support at their UK ISP to admit
what the ISPs were doing :-/

Gulp You imply that there are NON-innocent folk using Usenet?!!! ;-)

Since nobody has complained about this for some time,
the block might have been removed.

Your usage of your broadband account is constantly
monitored by fully automated equipment. If you were
to "break a rule" with regard to certain ISP policies,
the equipment quietly closes the port and stops it.
No human could possibly notice undesired mail forwarding
activity, in an 80Gbit/sec firehose of traffic. But
automated equipment called Deep Packet Inspection
sees this.

Thanks for that, Paul.

Here's a comprehensive article about such matters:-

https://www.techrepublic.com/article...persons-guide/

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David B.