soc.retirement scheduled for sporge flood

supe...@soc.retirement

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Aug 8, 2007, 8:55:26 PM8/8/07

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Sporge flooding of soc.retirement will commence in a few hours.

This will render soc.retirement 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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Sir Frederick

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Aug 9, 2007, 2:26:32 PM8/9/07

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On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 00:55:26 GMT, supe...@soc.retirement wrote:

>Sporge flooding of soc.retirement will commence in a few hours.
>
>This will render soc.retirement 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

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Sporge
Sporgery is the disruptive act of posting a flood of articles to a Usenet newsgroup, with the article headers falsified so that they
appear to have been posted by others. The word is a portmanteau of spam and forgery, coined by Tilman Hausherr.

Sporgery resembles crapflooding, which is also intended to disrupt a forum. However, sporgery is not merely disruptive but also
deceptive or libellous -- it involves falsifying objectionable posts so they appear to come from newsgroup regulars. The purpose is
not merely to jam the forum, but also to blacken the reputations of its regular users by falsely signing their names to offensive
posts.

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John E. Hadstate

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Aug 12, 2007, 2:27:26 PM8/12/07

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"Harry Thompson" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:FCEvi.4$o4...@newsfe02.lga...

> This is a real threat. sci.crypt is presently flooded with
> nonsense posts by the thousands for over a month now.
>
> However, supernews has nothing to do with it. Whoever is
> behind the sporging picked up a regular's suggestion of
> using supernews and incorporated it into the sporge.
>
> But I don't know why anybody would want to sporge
> soc.retirement. It's already sporged with politics. The
> offender need not waste his time.

Supernews.com has been found to do a reasonably good job of
frustrating the efforts of the latest script kiddie to
attack sci.crypt, which is why he's attempting to embarrass
them. It's highly unlikely that they are involved in
promoting these festivities (in spite of appearances to the
contrary).

In addition to his sporgery attack, the fruitcake hit upon
the fairly devious trick of setting follow-ups to sci.crypt,
thus getting hundreds of people like yourself to unwittingly
carry his dirty underwear and help prosecute his attack on
sci.crypt.

Harry Thompson

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Aug 12, 2007, 4:16:03 PM8/12/07

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John E. Hadstate wrote:

> In addition to his sporgery attack, the fruitcake hit upon
> the fairly devious trick of setting follow-ups to sci.crypt,
> thus getting hundreds of people like yourself to unwittingly
> carry his dirty underwear and help prosecute his attack on
> sci.crypt.

Whoops, I missed the follow-up. I'll be more careful in the future,
thank you.

Tomi Häsä

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Aug 14, 2007, 2:36:53 PM8/14/07

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On Aug 9, 3:55 am, supern...@soc.retirement wrote:
> Sporge flooding of soc.retirement 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/