rec.crafts.metalworking scheduled for sporge flood

supe...@rec.crafts.metalworking

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Aug 8, 2007, 8:54:53 PM8/8/07

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Sporge flooding of rec.crafts.metalworking will commence in a few hours.

This will render rec.crafts.metalworking useless. For an example, see Sci.Crypt.

Supernews filters out this sporgery spam. Get a better Usenet
experience. Sign up for our risk-free trial today!

https://www.supernews.com/signup

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DoN. Nichols

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Aug 8, 2007, 11:08:02 PM8/8/07

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According to <supe...@rec.crafts.metalworking>:

> Sporge flooding of rec.crafts.metalworking will commence in a few hours.
>
> This will render rec.crafts.metalworking useless. For an example, see Sci.Crypt.

Note that the "Followup-To: " on this was set to sci.crypt, but
I have fixed that on my followup, at least.

> Supernews filters out this sporgery spam. Get a better Usenet
> experience. Sign up for our risk-free trial today!

And this is apparently a joe job, not anything really from
supernews.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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Too_Many_Tools

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Aug 8, 2007, 11:26:08 PM8/8/07

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On Aug 8, 10:08 pm, dnich...@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) wrote:
> According to <supern...@rec.crafts.metalworking>:

>
> > Sporge flooding of rec.crafts.metalworking will commence in a few hours.
>
> > This will render rec.crafts.metalworking useless. For an example, see Sci.Crypt.
>
> Note that the "Followup-To: " on this was set to sci.crypt, but
> I have fixed that on my followup, at least.
>
> > Supernews filters out this sporgery spam. Get a better Usenet
> > experience. Sign up for our risk-free trial today!
>
> And this is apparently a joe job, not anything really from
> supernews.
>
> Enjoy,
> DoN.
>
> --

> Email: <dnich...@d-and-d.com> | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564

> (too) near Washington D.C. |http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html
> --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero ---

Correct...it is all over the Usenet.

TMT

Phil Carmody

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Aug 9, 2007, 3:29:18 AM8/9/07

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Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> writes:

> So this idiot is announcing, in a public forum, that he is going to
> commit a federal crime? Oh, good, I'll have to check the papers in a
> couple days to read about his arrest!
>
> Is his IP address 198.186.194.247? That was in the message header.

Perhaps if you spent more time looking at the 'Followups-To' header
you'd do a better job of not being part of the attack on sci.crypt.

And google 'joe job' while you're thinking about that.

Phil
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Wes

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Aug 9, 2007, 9:40:03 AM8/9/07

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dnic...@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) wrote:

>According to <supe...@rec.crafts.metalworking>:
>> Sporge flooding of rec.crafts.metalworking will commence in a few hours.
>>
>> This will render rec.crafts.metalworking useless. For an example, see Sci.Crypt.
>
> Note that the "Followup-To: " on this was set to sci.crypt, but
>I have fixed that on my followup, at least.
>
>> Supernews filters out this sporgery spam. Get a better Usenet
>> experience. Sign up for our risk-free trial today!
>
> And this is apparently a joe job, not anything really from
>supernews.
>
> Enjoy,
> DoN.

I don't quite understand what this sporg thing is. My newsreader is set to
only reply to the group I read this by default. Keeps my OT replies local
;)

Wes

DoN. Nichols

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Aug 10, 2007, 5:01:46 PM8/10/07

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According to Wes <clu...@lycos.com>:

> dnic...@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) wrote:
>
> >According to <supe...@rec.crafts.metalworking>:
> >> Sporge flooding of rec.crafts.metalworking will commence in a few hours.
> >>
> >> This will render rec.crafts.metalworking useless. For an example, see Sci.Crypt.
> >
> > Note that the "Followup-To: " on this was set to sci.crypt, but
> >I have fixed that on my followup, at least.
> >
> >> Supernews filters out this sporgery spam. Get a better Usenet
> >> experience. Sign up for our risk-free trial today!
> >
> > And this is apparently a joe job, not anything really from
> >supernews.

[ ... ]

> I don't quite understand what this sporg thing is.

You left off the terminal 'e'. It was new to me too, but
appears to be a combination of "spam" and "forge"

> My newsreader is set to
> only reply to the group I read this by default. Keeps my OT replies local
> ;)

Good practice -- especially if you don't look at the headers
before posting. (I must admit -- I don't usually look to that amount
of detail -- but this one got my suspicions going. :-)

cavelamb himself

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Aug 13, 2007, 1:48:22 AM8/13/07

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Too_Many_Tools wrote:

TMT?

Can you reply to this (if you ever see it???)

REM: in the subject line can be sorted.

It ain't great, but it looks like it WILL work

DoN. Nichols

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Aug 13, 2007, 2:03:06 AM8/13/07

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According to cavelamb himself <cave...@verizon.net>:

> Too_Many_Tools wrote:
>
> > On Aug 8, 10:08 pm, dnich...@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) wrote:
> >
> >>According to <supern...@rec.crafts.metalworking>:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Sporge flooding of rec.crafts.metalworking will commence in a few hours.
> >>
> >>>This will render rec.crafts.metalworking useless. For an example, see Sci.Crypt.
> >>
> >> Note that the "Followup-To: " on this was set to sci.crypt, but
> >>I have fixed that on my followup, at least.
> >>
> >>
> >>>Supernews filters out this sporgery spam. Get a better Usenet
> >>>experience. Sign up for our risk-free trial today!
> >>
> >> And this is apparently a joe job, not anything really from
> >>supernews.

[ ... ]

> > Correct...it is all over the Usenet.
> >
> > TMT
> >
> TMT?
>
> Can you reply to this (if you ever see it???)
>
> REM: in the subject line can be sorted.
>
> It ain't great, but it looks like it WILL work

If you put it in -- something took it out. Beware of a ':' in
the beginning of a "Subject: " header -- Microsoft's Outlook Express
thinks that it is "Re: " in some other language, deletes it, and
replaces it with "Re: ". Try putting it in square brackets instead.

And it looks as though my ISP (at least) is killing these almost
as fast as they are coming in. I found (last time I did a reply) that
of the 371 new ones which had just come in, 111 were already gone.
Either my ISP is doing it, or someone is running a very active
(and much needed) cancelbot.

Good Luck,
DoN.

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Michael A. Terrell

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Aug 13, 2007, 11:03:23 AM8/13/07

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Supernews hasn't let anything through.

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Michael A. Terrell
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Tomi Häsä

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Aug 14, 2007, 2:35:00 PM8/14/07

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On Aug 9, 3:54 am, supern...@rec.crafts.metalworking wrote:
> Sporge flooding of rec.crafts.metalworking 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/

steamer

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Aug 14, 2007, 2:44:03 PM8/14/07

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DoN. Nichols <dnic...@d-and-d.com> wrote:
> And this is apparently a joe job, not anything really from supernews.

--Thanks for the pointer. Oh, and if anyone figures out who "Joe"
really is, I'll kick in for a bounty pool to collect his index fingers,
bwahaha..

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Larry Jaques

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Aug 14, 2007, 6:42:22 PM8/14/07

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On 14 Aug 2007 18:44:03 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, steamer
<ste...@sonic.net> quickly quoth:

>DoN. Nichols <dnic...@d-and-d.com> wrote:
>> And this is apparently a joe job, not anything really from supernews.
> --Thanks for the pointer. Oh, and if anyone figures out who "Joe"
>really is, I'll kick in for a bounty pool to collect his index fingers,
>bwahaha..

Aren't we still collecting ears on our necklaces?
(What movie did that come from, anyway?) <titter>

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steamer

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Aug 14, 2007, 7:46:00 PM8/14/07

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Larry Jaques <novalidaddress@di\/ersify.com> wrote:
>Aren't we still collecting ears on our necklaces?
>(What movie did that come from, anyway?) <titter>

--"Apocalypse Now" and yes, Kurtz had the right idea..

DoN. Nichols

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Aug 15, 2007, 12:20:30 AM8/15/07

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According to steamer <ste...@sonic.net>:

> DoN. Nichols <dnic...@d-and-d.com> wrote:
> > And this is apparently a joe job, not anything really from supernews.
> --Thanks for the pointer. Oh, and if anyone figures out who "Joe"
> really is, I'll kick in for a bounty pool to collect his index fingers,

You really don't want to do that. "Joe" was the victim, not the
perpetrator. It was a case of a bunch of spam forged to look as though
it came from him, when in reality he was an active anti-spamer. It did
result in a lot of complaints to his upstream, however, because most
people can't read the headers to see where it really comes from.