frankj problem

frankdem wrote:

From: frankdem

Michael Niederer owns that domain, not Frank. In munging his e-mail
address or using a bogus one that uses this domain, Frank is infringing
on someone else's registered domain name.

Subject: frankj problem

Yes, Frank, we see the problem ... of providing no details or context.

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More misuse of someone else's domain name.

Organization: Computer Help - http://forums.techarena.in
User-Agent: vBulletin USENET gateway

A forum in India operating a gateway to Usenet to pretend they have a
larger community of users.

System Restore problem

Yep, that's all Frankie wrote. Another pointless post from a forum that
uses a gateway to Usenet trying to pretend they are bigger than they
really are.


rant

Alas, Frank's "style" for forum-to-Usenet gatewayed posts is not unique.
As the forums infiltrate Usenet via gateways, we're seeing yet another
dumbing down of Usenet. First AOL opens Usenet to its Usenet-ignorant
users (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_september), then come the
Google Groupers (nee DejaNews) using a webnews-for-dummies interface
which is followed later by Microsoft using one to pretend they have
forums, then the forum-to-Usenet gatewayed boobs come along because
these forums want to pretend they have more users, and now some Usenet
providers also have a webnews-for-dummies interface.

While I block Google Groupers in other newsgroups due to the high volume
of spam that originates from there and because of the general lack of
initiative and intelligence by Google Groupers, I don't block them in
the microsoft.* groups ... yet. I didn't think the general ignorance,
laziness, and knee-jerk behavior of Google Groupers could be surpassed
but the forum-to-Usenet gatewayed boobs are proving me wrong.

I already colorize the posts by the forum-to-Usenet gatewayed posters.
Time to update that filter to mark as read, ignore, and hide those
gatewayed posters (since deleting them would mean that I would still see
replies to those gatewayed noise posts whereas I can ignore an entire
thread). If Blinky the Shark were still alive and his site still
active, we'd ask him to update his web page on how to block the dumb
Google Groupers (which only later addressed the high-volume of spam from
that source) to also mention how to detect those forum gateways and
block posts from them. Often the gateway is announced in the headers.
Alas, not all newsreaders can test on those headers.

It's going to get worse as more web-based forums add gateways to Usenet.

/rant