Dafuq

Has this group been subjected to a DOS attack?

Martin Edwards wrote:

Has this group been subjected to a DOS attack?

If it has, it's by people already in my killfile ...

In article ,
says...

Martin Edwards wrote:

Has this group been subjected to a DOS attack?

If it has, it's by people already in my killfile ...

Just now I see -hundreds- of posts by Anonymous and Nomen
Mescio. Is that what you mean?

Jason wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

Martin Edwards wrote:

Has this group been subjected to a DOS attack?

If it has, it's by people already in my killfile ...

Just now I see -hundreds- of posts by Anonymous and Nomen
Mescio. Is that what you mean?

[Looks at hidden threads]

Yes, that's the sort of behaviour that earned them their places ...

On 06/12/2018 08.40, Martin Edwards wrote:
Has this group been subjected to a DOS attack?

Someone that is angry with some Dusting Cook and periodically posts
hundreds of messages with vitriol, to be deleted without reading.

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Cheers, Carlos.

Martin Edwards wrote:

Has this group been subjected to a DOS attack?

Filter out all posts submitted through the anonymizing remailer servers
(mixmin.net or dizum.net) as the injection node in the Path header. If
Thunderbird won't let you test on a non-overview header, you could test
for "@remailer." or "@dizum." in the Message-ID header.

In addition, if your client provides the option, have it also flag
subthreads. After all, if you don't want to see the junk posts, you
probably also don't want to see any replies to them.

Martin Edwards wrote:
Has this group been subjected to a DOS attack?

You know, at one time, Anonymous Remailers didn't exist.

Man, what a great time to be alive that was!

And the air had only 340ppm of CO2 back then!

The conclusion is, it's the farting of Anonymous
Remailer users, that is causing our CO2 problem.
Ipso facto.

Paul

On 06/12/2018 14.53, VanguardLH wrote:
Martin Edwards wrote:

Has this group been subjected to a DOS attack?

Filter out all posts submitted through the anonymizing remailer servers
(mixmin.net or dizum.net) as the injection node in the Path header.

What is that "anonymizing remailer" thing?

I have not been always on usenet, so that's something I do not know.

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Cheers, Carlos.

On 06/12/2018 15.35, Wolf K wrote:
On 2018-12-06 09:10, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 06/12/2018 14.53, VanguardLH wrote:
Martin Edwards wrote:

Has this group been subjected to a DOS attack?

Filter out all posts submitted through the anonymizing remailer servers
(mixmin.net or dizum.net) as the injection node in the Path header.

What is that "anonymizing remailer" thing?

I have not been always on usenet, so that's something I do not know.


It's a service that replaces your From address (not Name, nor Reply To)
with a different one. But it has to have a legitimate domain, the bit
after the @. That's why you can filter them out: "From contains
@xyz.com" will filter all messages with @xyz.com in the address.

My filters trashed all the original messages about dafuq, I've seen just
your and a few other replies.

AIUI, every message on the internet must have a legitimate address, ie
one with a real domain. Even if you use a fake Reply To address on
Usenet posts, your client will show your real address to the server. The
anomymiser replaces that real address with another real address.

Ah, I see.

But I do not see why use that when on usenet there is no enforcing on
real "From" address.

I can see no useful aspect of this service. Using it to anonymise posts
from within a jurisdiction that may not like what you say can't work
very long, since that jurisdiction can block that domain (and can
scavenge your messages for later use against you, of course). For the
rest, it's a way for people with nasty opinions to hide themselves.
People who do _not_ have the courage of their convictions. Wimpy
cowards, IOW.

Ok, that's a reason to filter those messages, or at least flag them.

I deleted all those manually, so I'll have to wait for the next flood to
create a filter.

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Cheers, Carlos.

On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 08:54:39 -0500, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, Paul
wrote:

Martin Edwards wrote:
Has this group been subjected to a DOS attack?

You know, at one time, Anonymous Remailers didn't exist.

Man, what a great time to be alive that was!

And the air had only 340ppm of CO2 back then!

The conclusion is, it's the farting of Anonymous
Remailer users, that is causing our CO2 problem.
Ipso facto.


That would be a CH4 problem, Paul. Still a greenhouse gas, though. I'm
forwarding your theory to some climate scientists I know.

--
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

On 06/12/2018 07:40, Martin Edwards wrote:
Has this group been subjected to a DOS attack?

I did ask him not to attack this group but, as you've seen, to no avail. :-(

http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?ID=154411178600

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Regards,
David B.

On 6-12-2018 13:25, Jason wrote:
In article ,
says...

Martin Edwards wrote:

Has this group been subjected to a DOS attack?

If it has, it's by people already in my killfile ...

Just now I see -hundreds- of posts by Anonymous and Nomen
Mescio. Is that what you mean?

They are resting in my killfile.......

Wolf K wrote:
[...]
AIUI, every message on the internet must have a legitimate address, ie
one with a real domain. Even if you use a fake Reply To address on
Usenet posts, your client will show your real address to the server. The
anomymiser replaces that real address with another real address.

That's not quite correct. Your News server may require you to log in
(NNTP-AUTH commands AUTHINFO USER and AUTHINFO PASS), but that login
'name' is not neccesarily an email address. For example for my News
provider's server, News.Individual.NET, my login user name is not an
email address and doesn't look like one (it's just one 'word').

I.e. when I post this article, this

From: Frank Slootweg

gets sent to my News provider's server, but they couldn't care less
about that bogus 'address' information, because I am already logged in
via my user name and password.

"Trust me, I'm a News Admin!" [1] :-)

If you want to see how you log in on your News provider's server, have
a look at your 'Saved Passwords...' in Thunderbird (Tools - Options
- 'Security' tab - Saved Passwords... - Show Passwords and then look
for 'Site:' which start with 'news://'.)

[...]

[1] Well, I *was* a (part-time) professional News Admin in some tiny
150K employeee IT company for two decades. And I *am* still the News
Admin of my ('small', 'local',) private news server.

On 12/6/2018 12:25 PM, Jason wrote:
In article ,
says...

Martin Edwards wrote:

Has this group been subjected to a DOS attack?

If it has, it's by people already in my killfile ...

Just now I see -hundreds- of posts by Anonymous and Nomen
Mescio. Is that what you mean?

Yes.

On 12/6/2018 6:27 PM, Sjouke Burry wrote:
On 6-12-2018 13:25, Jason wrote:
In article ,
says...

Martin Edwards wrote:

Has this group been subjected to a DOS attack?

If it has, it's by people already in my killfile ...

Just now I see -hundreds- of posts by Anonymous and Nomen
Mescio. Is that what you mean?

They are resting in my killfile.......

I have some posters in my killfile, but yesterday I had to hit k so many
times I got bored. Looks like I'll have to kill some more.