Anyone else getting this flood of messages?

On 2018-07-24 18:51, Arlen Holder wrote:
On 24 Jul 2018 09:04:34 GMT, Carlos E.R. wrote:

It has just stopped here. Either my nntp provider has applied a filter,
or the culprit stopped.

I'm still getting the flood so if it stopped for you, it's due to a filter.

I get nntp from individual.net, so they must be filtering them. I don't
have a "delete" filter, just a "flag" filter.

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Cheers, Carlos.

"Paul" wrote in message news

The flood seems to have stopped here.
Fingers crossed.

Ditto.



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On 24 Jul 2018 10:54:00 GMT, VanguardLH wrote:

Although many Usenet
providers employ flooding filters, those only work if the articles are
the same (i.e., a high count of the same content). uuhec was flooding
the newsgroup with forged copies of the original posts, so the forgeries
were different from each other.

I don't understand this flooding stuff, but I'm seeing it, where I wonder
what on earth is the advantage to whomever is flooding?

Is it just an nntp configuration mistake?
Or is the flooding done on purpose for some nefarious reason?

I don't understand what the messages are (because I didn't look at them
individually) but they seem to be "repeat" messages of stuff we already
sent.

Is that right?
If so ...
What is the advantage to the person flooding to just repeat our messages?

Arlen Holder wrote:
On 24 Jul 2018 10:54:00 GMT, VanguardLH wrote:

Although many Usenet
providers employ flooding filters, those only work if the articles are
the same (i.e., a high count of the same content). uuhec was flooding
the newsgroup with forged copies of the original posts, so the forgeries
were different from each other.

I don't understand this flooding stuff, but I'm seeing it, where I wonder
what on earth is the advantage to whomever is flooding?

Is it just an nntp configuration mistake?
Or is the flooding done on purpose for some nefarious reason?

I don't understand what the messages are (because I didn't look at them
individually) but they seem to be "repeat" messages of stuff we already
sent.

Is that right?
If so ...
What is the advantage to the person flooding to just repeat our messages?

It's a software bug in an obscure gateway.

Paul

On 24 Jul 2018, Paul wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

It's a software bug in an obscure gateway.

"Well, I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be
attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before
and it has always been due to human error."

-- HAL 9000

On 7/24/2018 2:37 PM, Big Al wrote:
I'm getting what looks like either echos of posts or someone duping
posts to flood the group.Â*Â* It makes it impossible to see what's new.Â* I
get 100's a day.

I did. Some advice I got on filters cured it. I'm thankful that
newsgroups survive, despite everything.

On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 09:37:45 -0400, Big Al wrote:

I'm getting what looks like either echos of posts or someone duping
posts to flood the group. It makes it impossible to see what's new. I
get 100's a day.

Haven't seen any since I created a kill filter...

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