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Aug 8, 2007, 9:12:27 PM8/8/07

Sporge flooding of rec.audio.marketplace will commence in a few hours.

This will render rec.audio.marketplace useless. For an example, see Sci.Crypt.

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Soundhaspriority

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Aug 9, 2007, 5:49:58 AM8/9/07

<supe...@rec.audio.marketplace> wrote in message
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> Sporge flooding of rec.audio.marketplace will commence in a few hours.
>
> This will render rec.audio.marketplace useless.

Thanks to me, all of the audio groups are useless.

Bob Morein
Dresher, PA
(215) 646-4894

Phil Carmody

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Aug 13, 2007, 4:24:31 PM8/13/07

"David Ruether" <rp...@no-junk.cornell.edu> writes:
> A suggestion from someone in another NG for bypassing sporge (false
> posts) is that anyone who wants to post here should put 4 exclamation
> points in front of the subject just as I did in this message (!!!!Subject).
> That will make everyone's real posts and the replies to them show up at
> the top of all the crap so long as the reader has his/her posts sorted by
> subject. You may also want to put your subject line in caps (this NG
> only, until the sporge problem passes if it occurs - and delete all posts
> if it does occur before posting) to make them stand out from the sporge.

Did you know what newsgroup you were posting to? You appear
to be a rec.audio.marketplace reader, but you posted to
sci.crypt. Thus your "helpful" advice didn't reach anyone
your intended audience.

Amusingly, if you had posted to the right group, then
it might have been useful advice. However, as you sent
it to the only group that the attacker is known to read,
and the only one that the attack is actually currently
directed at, he could trivially do the next sporge run
with '!!!!' in every subject line. And make sure that
a.r.m was a recipient too. So you might have damned
yourself with your own advice.

If that happens, then read sci.crypt to find out what
we do to minimise the effects of his sporge runs.

For your own newsgroup's sake, please be more careful
next time.

Phil
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Tomi Häsä

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Aug 14, 2007, 2:33:03 PM8/14/07

On Aug 9, 4:12 am, supern...@rec.audio.marketplace wrote:
> Sporge flooding of rec.audio.marketplace will commence in a few hours.

To help better filter this spammer, here are some of the sporge flood
warning messages in newsgroups where the sporge flood attacks actually
took place around August 2007:

Some of the false alarms (at least so far):

More sporge flood warning messages can be found with this search:

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=sporge+flood&num=100&scoring=r&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_ugroup=&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=&lr=&as_qdr=w&as_drrb=b&as_mind=4&as_minm=8&as_miny=2007&as_maxd=14&as_maxm=8&as_maxy=2007&safe=off

Filtering suggestion for the sporge flood attacks:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/browse_frm/thread/b1a5be766256e01f/69869a7d856ef65e#69869a7d856ef65e

More info about sporge flood attacks for newbies who might find this
thread confusing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporgery
http://bernie.cncfamily.com/sc/sporg.htm
http://www.wordsonline.org/Sporge
http://www.dansdata.com/sporge.htm
http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/sporgart.htm
http://www.talkaboutreligion.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/messages/1242545.html
http://www.holysmoke.org/forgeries/giganews.htm
http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/07/12/of-sporge-and-lamers/

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