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  #91  
Old February 20th 19, 08:17 PM posted to alt.os.linux,comp.sys.mac.apps,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Jasen Betts
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On 2019-02-20, Barry Margolin wrote:
In article ,
Jasen Betts wrote:

On 2019-02-19, arlen holder wrote:
They think it's me confused, but all I did was ask this simple question:
Q: Does a free proxy even exist to post using free nntp news servers?
A: Name just one.


They think it's me confused, but all I did was ask this simple question:
Q: Does a free proxy even exist to post using free nntp news servers?


yes, if you keep repeating the same question you will keep getting the
same answer.

for example leafnode is free, and inn is free. leafonode is a proxy
and inn is a server.


If you're going to bother responding to him, stop being deliberately
obtuse.

He's not looking for proxy software, he's looking for a proxy service.
He explained his goal, so the ambiguity in the language has been
resolved and you just look like an a-hole giving the same answer over
and over.


What is is is that he got shown to be wrong in some other newsgroup so
he comes here trying to demand a certain answer to a badly-worded
question, so that he can then cite some "expert" answer.

I guess there is a possibility that he writes things without thinking,
although he does claim to think carefully, some of his arguments are
truly a site to behold.

If he was actually looking for a proxy service he would actually be
asking for a proxy service by now.

Thers's a possibility that he's finding it hard to maintain a server
to post through due to reputation, and wants to find a new way to
post without changing the way he posts (if you catch my drift). He's
not the worst troll on the internet, and he is more entertaining than
most.

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  #92  
Old February 20th 19, 08:20 PM posted to alt.os.linux,comp.sys.mac.apps,alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Barry Margolin wrote:
In article ,
Jasen Betts wrote:

On 2019-02-19, arlen holder wrote:
They think it's me confused, but all I did was ask this simple question:
Q: Does a free proxy even exist to post using free nntp news servers?
A: Name just one.


They think it's me confused, but all I did was ask this simple question:
Q: Does a free proxy even exist to post using free nntp news servers?


yes, if you keep repeating the same question you will keep getting the
same answer.

for example leafnode is free, and inn is free. leafonode is a proxy
and inn is a server.


If you're going to bother responding to him, stop being deliberately
obtuse.

He's not looking for proxy software, he's looking for a proxy service.
He explained his goal, so the ambiguity in the language has been
resolved and you just look like an a-hole giving the same answer over
and over.


Easy does it! Don't blame the respondents, blame the culprit/OP. Your
wording towards Jasen is uncalled for.

Yes, he's looking for a service. No. it's not at all clear that he's
looking for a *proxy* service. *He* *thinks* he's looking for a proxy
service, because he misunderstood an article which Mike Easter had
pointed to.

His use of the term 'proxy' especially in (non-)connection with "free
nntp news servers" is only muddling the waters.

I*M*O, but I might be wrong as well, because arlen is clear as mud and
only spewing ******** and insults instead of information/clarification,
he's looking for an anonymizer service, specifically one which conceals
his IP address. Calling this a proxy service is, again IMO, incorrect/
uninformed terminology.

All-in-all, I think Mike described it very well in this post of today:


or
http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?STYPE=msgid&A=0&MSGI=%3Cgd3ac3Feue6U1@mi d.individual.net%3E
  #93  
Old February 20th 19, 09:09 PM posted to alt.os.linux,comp.sys.mac.apps,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Mike Easter
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Frank Slootweg wrote:
he's looking for an anonymizer service, specifically one which conceals
his IP address. Calling this a proxy service is, again IMO, incorrect/
uninformed terminology.


Now I'm thinking that his 'problem' is that he wants to use mixmin
because it is a text nntp provider which doesn't require authentication;
but that mixmin, unlike eternal-september or news.individual.net or
others which have a 'complex' x-trace or NPH or other string which
contains some derivative of the connecting IP 'smushed' with other
variable information such as unix time, mixmin's info is /simply/ some
kind of hash of the connecting IP. That makes mixmin's info much much
more crackable by header readers than say NIN or e-s.

arlen tends to make himself more of a target to usenet header readers
who become his adversaries because he so frequently shifts into an
abusive rude dialog with ad hominem slurs toward those who have some
different view than his own.

Using a VPN as a method of concealing his own IP connectivity is one
strategy for solving his dilemma, but I don't think it is an ideal one.

Open nntp/s not requiring authentication have their own problems in
managing their servers which are different from those server admins
which require authentication, and providing services to those who
'beat'/defeat the nntp admin's methods isn't exactly 'fair play'.

mixmin provides mail2news as one avenue of an anonymized posting and
helps users with anonymizing with mixmaster and bananasplit advice, so
maybe the mixmin's admin is in agreement with arlen's use of VPN or
other strategies to conceal his IP to mitigate mixmin's 'weakness' in
obfuscating the connecting IP from prying eyes which would decrypt or
'dehash' the mixmin info line.

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  #94  
Old February 20th 19, 11:07 PM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
Carlos E.R.[_3_]
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On 20/02/2019 16.52, Barry Margolin wrote:
In article ,
"Carlos E.R." wrote:

On 19/02/2019 18.21, Barry Margolin wrote:
In article ,
Ken Hart wrote:

On 2/17/19 6:15 PM, arlen holder wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 14:29:54 -0800, Mike Easter wrote:

I have no interest in that question and I'm under no obligation to even
consider it worth discussing.

The question is actually very simple & rather easy to comprehend Mike.

Knowledgeable users who know the answer can add to our knowledge.

Q: What's a free proxy for the specific purpose of free Usenet posts?


Google is your friend.

I copied and pasted your question into Google; it came back with "About
481,000 results (0.78 seconds)"

The seventh result down the page was "25 Best Free Web Proxies for Safer
and Anonymous Surfing | SpyAdvice
https://spyadvice.com/free-web-proxies/"
While I didn't check out the cite/site, it does mention "It also
supports Usenet... posting..."

Since you can post to Usenet through the Google Groups website, any web
proxy does that. That doesn't make it an NNTP proxy.


I assume that Google Groups demands a proper google identity.


For posting, I assume you're correct.

Most NNTP servers require a login, too. There are a few exceptions, like
AIOE.


Yes, certainly, but in the case of google they have to go with their
real mail address visible, while many of us in usenet do not.


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  #95  
Old February 20th 19, 11:17 PM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
nospam
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In article , Carlos E.R.
wrote:

Since you can post to Usenet through the Google Groups website, any web
proxy does that. That doesn't make it an NNTP proxy.

I assume that Google Groups demands a proper google identity.


For posting, I assume you're correct.

Most NNTP servers require a login, too. There are a few exceptions, like
AIOE.


Yes, certainly, but in the case of google they have to go with their
real mail address visible, while many of us in usenet do not.


nope, because usually, it's a fake email.
  #96  
Old February 21st 19, 12:16 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
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On 20/02/2019 22:17, nospam wrote:
In article , Carlos E.R.
wrote:

Since you can post to Usenet through the Google Groups website, any web
proxy does that. That doesn't make it an NNTP proxy.

I assume that Google Groups demands a proper google identity.

For posting, I assume you're correct.

Most NNTP servers require a login, too. There are a few exceptions, like
AIOE.


Yes, certainly, but in the case of google they have to go with their
real mail address visible, while many of us in usenet do not.


nope, because usually, it's a fake email.


If email 'works', how can it be "fake" email?

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  #97  
Old February 21st 19, 12:38 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
Mike Easter
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David in Devon wrote:
nospam wrote:
Carlos E.R. wrote:

Since you can post to Usenet through the Google Groups
website, any web proxy does that. That doesn't make it an
NNTP proxy.

I assume that Google Groups demands a proper google identity.

For posting, I assume you're correct.

Most NNTP servers require a login, too. There are a few exceptions,
like AIOE.

Yes, certainly, but in the case of google they have to go with their
real mail address visible, while many of us in usenet do not.


nope, because usually, it's a fake email.


If email 'works', how can it be "fake" email?

The above cited terms are 'ambiguous' he

proper google identity
google ... real mail address
fake email

In the case of free email addresses such as gmail's, each gmail address
is 'real' in the sense that it functions as an email address and is
associated with a gmail account.

As opposed to some truly 'bogus' email address which is constructed 'out
of whole cloth' to populate such as a From which From might be a social
engineering construct of a spam or scam or phish to appear to the
uninformed mail reader as if it were from a girl or a bank or whatever,
which it is not.

In order to post to GG, the user must have (and use) a google account.
Whether that google account bears any resemblance to one's true
'identity' is NOT necessary.

Maybe a term like 'artificial' (real) account would be better.

Such an artificial (artificially created) account functions just like a
real account corresponding to one's 'real life' name or identity.

Another nntp provider besides aioe which doesn't require
login/authentication/ registration/ is mixmin, arlen's nntp.

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  #98  
Old February 21st 19, 01:11 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
David in Devon
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On 20/02/2019 23:38, Mike Easter wrote:
David in Devon wrote:
nospam wrote:
Carlos E.R. wrote:

Since you can post to Usenet through the Google Groups
website, any web proxy does that. That doesn't make it an
NNTP proxy.

I assume that Google Groups demands a proper google identity.

For posting, I assume you're correct.

Most NNTP servers require a login, too. There are a few exceptions,
like AIOE.

Yes, certainly, but in the case of google they have to go with their
real mail address visible, while many of us in usenet do not.

nope, because usually, it's a fake email.


If email 'works', how can it be "fake" email?

The above cited terms are 'ambiguous' he

proper google identity
google ... real mail address
fake email

In the case of free email addresses such as gmail's, each gmail address
is 'real' in the sense that it functions as an email address and is
associated with a gmail account.

As opposed to some truly 'bogus' email address which is constructed 'out
of whole cloth' to populate such as a From which From might be a social
engineering construct of a spam or scam or phish to appear to the
uninformed mail reader as if it were from a girl or a bank or whatever,
which it is not.

In order to post to GG, the user must have (and use) a google account.
Whether that google account bears any resemblance to one's true
'identity' is NOT necessary.

Maybe a term like 'artificial' (real) account would be better.

Such an artificial (artificially created) account functions just like a
real account corresponding to one's 'real life' name or identity.

Another nntp provider besides aioe which doesn't require
login/authentication/ registration/ is mixmin, arlen's nntp.


Thank you for clarifying, Mike.

There's a great deal which 'nospam' could learn from you, even though he
pretends to be an Apple App 'Developer' (but she refuses to disclose
WHICH Apps they are. How honest is that, eh?!!!)

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  #99  
Old February 21st 19, 01:23 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
Mike Easter
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David in Devon wrote:
There's a great deal which 'nospam' could learn from you, even though he
pretends to be an Apple App 'Developer' (but she refuses to disclose
WHICH Apps they are. How honest is that, eh?!!!)


I haven't seen anything 'inaccurate' from nospam in my brief time
viewing hir msgs; just generally terse and sometimes of a 'terse
opinion', as opposed to an some other opinion with more verbiage to
support itself.

'Too terse' might be better than 'too verbose' -- or sometimes not.

(For some reason) I'm reminded of the great exchange in Amadeus when the
emperor and Mozart had an exchange:

Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work
is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes,
that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.

Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?

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  #100  
Old February 21st 19, 01:29 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
Carlos E.R.[_3_]
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On 21/02/2019 00.38, Mike Easter wrote:
David in Devon wrote:
nospam wrote:
Carlos E.R. wrote:

Since you can post to Usenet through the Google Groups
website, any web proxy does that. That doesn't make it an
NNTP proxy.

I assume that Google Groups demands a proper google identity.

For posting, I assume you're correct.

Most NNTP servers require a login, too. There are a few exceptions,
like AIOE.

Yes, certainly, but in the case of google they have to go with their
real mail address visible, while many of us in usenet do not.

nope, because usually, it's a fake email.


If email 'works', how can it be "fake" email?

The above cited terms are 'ambiguous' he

proper google identity
google ... real mail address
fake email

In the case of free email addresses such as gmail's, each gmail address
is 'real' in the sense that it functions as an email address and is
associated with a gmail account.


The point I make is that those people that are posting to usenet through
Google Groups web service have to use a valid and identified Gmail (aka
Google) account, and thus they are using their correct and working email
address in the From header, so they are not anonymous. Thus a proxy that
uses Google Groups website is not an anonymizer.

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  #101  
Old February 21st 19, 01:31 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
Mike Easter
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Mike Easter wrote:
(For some reason) I'm reminded of the great exchange in Amadeus when the
emperor and Mozart had an exchange:

Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work
is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes,
that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.

Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?


Or was it this one:

The emperor: ''Too beautiful for our ears, my dear Mozart, and monstrous
many notes.''

Mozart: ''Exactly as many as are necessary, Your Majesty.''


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  #102  
Old February 21st 19, 02:02 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
Mike Easter
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Carlos E.R. wrote:
Mike Easter wrote:


The above cited terms are 'ambiguous' he

proper google identity
google ... real mail address
fake email

In the case of free email addresses such as gmail's, each gmail address
is 'real' in the sense that it functions as an email address and is
associated with a gmail account.


The point I make is that those people that are posting to usenet through
Google Groups web service have to use a valid and identified Gmail (aka
Google) account, and thus they are using their correct and working email
address in the From header, so they are not anonymous. Thus a proxy that
uses Google Groups website is not an anonymizer.

A couple of the (MANY) problems with using GG to read and post to usenet
a

- GG trivially obfuscates the gmail address and only in GG, not in
usenet nntp, making the From gmail address harvestable by xover bots or
others
- variably historically, GG posts the nntp-posting-host in the clear,
generally providing the connectivity IP of the poster

So, those people who feel that they 'must' use GG because they haven't
figured out some other way to access by nntp from a particular location
or connectivity situation, find themselves needing to access GG some
other way than directly, such as a web proxy.

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  #103  
Old February 21st 19, 03:36 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
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On 2/20/2019 5:29 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

those people that are posting to usenet through
Google Groups web service have to use a valid and identified Gmail (aka
Google) account, and thus they are using their correct and working email
address in the From header, so they are not anonymous.


Google Groupies can use a throwaway Google email address. (I won't use
the word 'fake' so that I won't upset the word usage cops here.) Google
throwaways are easy to get, I have several. And they're reasonably
anonymous for most uses.

Thus a proxy that uses Google Groups website is not an anonymizer.


I also use a throwaway Google address and fake name for logging into the
Usenet servers that require it. Then I use a different name and address
in the newsreader. So now you know my secret: My real name isn't
123456789...

It's probably not CIA proof but for Usenet it's reasonably anonymous.

  #104  
Old February 21st 19, 04:16 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
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On 21/02/2019 02:36, 123456789 wrote:

My real name isn't 123456789...



So why are you using your prison number here? It is easy to find your
real name when your prison number is known.


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  #105  
Old February 21st 19, 09:54 AM posted to alt.os.linux,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.mac.apps
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On 21/02/2019 00:23, Mike Easter wrote:
David in Devon wrote:
There's a great deal which 'nospam' could learn from you, even though
he pretends to be an Apple App 'Developer' (but she refuses to
disclose WHICH Apps they are. How honest is that, eh?!!!)


I haven't seen anything 'inaccurate' from nospam in my brief time
viewing hir msgs; just generally terse and sometimes of a 'terse
opinion', as opposed to an some other opinion with more verbiage to
support itself.

'Too terse' might be better than 'too verbose' -- or sometimes not.


Try reading "hir"'s messages in 'rec.photo.digital'

Knowledge is good but attitude poor.

(For some reason) I'm reminded of the great exchange in Amadeus when the
emperor and Mozart had an exchange:

Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work
is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes,
that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect.

Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty?


Ha! :-D

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Devon, UK
 




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