@Home Users
Amanda Pressnell
Manda
<rlo...@sprynet.com> wrote in message
news:slrn87qgfu...@sprynet.com...
> May affect you if you're an @Home user:
>
> A serious newsgroup action - the Usenet Death Penalty has been
declared
> on the @Home network....so if @Home doesn't comply by the 18th of
this
> month, we may not be seeing posts by our fellow AFLS'ers who belong
> to @Home. :-(
> So, here are the relevent posts declaring the UDP and the @Home
> response. If you're an @Home user...start bugging your ISP and tell
them
> to fix themselves...cuz we'd hate to miss any of you guys!
>
> Robert
rlo...@sprynet.com
A serious newsgroup action - the Usenet Death Penalty has been declared
on the @Home network....so if @Home doesn't comply by the 18th of this
month, we may not be seeing posts by our fellow AFLS'ers who belong
to @Home. :-(
So, here are the relevent posts declaring the UDP and the @Home
response. If you're an @Home user...start bugging your ISP and tell them
to fix themselves...cuz we'd hate to miss any of you guys!
Robert
UDP Declaration:
==================================================================
Subject:
[usenet] Usenet Death Penalty Notice: @Home Network
Date:
12 Jan 2000 14:03:45 GMT
From:
David Ritz <dr...@primenet.com>
Organization:
SpamBusters!
To:
ab...@corp.home.net, ne...@corp.home.net, n...@corp.home.net,
ab...@rogers.home.net, Interne...@shaw.ca,
David Jackson <davja...@corp.home.net>
Newsgroups:
news.admin.announce
Followup-To:
news.admin.net-abuse.usenet
[posted and mailed]
[Please direct follow ups to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet.]
Posted to: news.admin.net-abuse.usenet
news.admin.net-abuse.policy
news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins
news.admin.announce
Mailed to: ab...@corp.home.net
ne...@corp.home.net
n...@corp.home.net
ab...@rogers.home.net
Interne...@shaw.ca
David Jackson <davja...@corp.home.net>
Over the past year, @Home Network has been the source of vast
quantities of Usenet spam. Despite countless complaints, reports,
and phone calls, @Home Network shows no inclination towards
stopping this ongoing abuse. By December, 1999, the situation
reached unconscionable levels of abuse.
Currently there is still a huge volume of EMP spam originating both
directly from @Home's @Home grown spammers and through the
countless open proxies to their news servers. These open proxies
present a very clear threat to the entire Usenet community at
large.
The data included in the following article shows a trend of
persistent and increasing abuse.
<http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=570620876&fmt=text>
} Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.usenet,news.admin.net-abuse.misc
} Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:20:54 -0700
} From: David Ritz <dr...@primenet.com>
} Reply-To: David Ritz <dr...@primenet.com>
} To: ab...@corp.home.net, ne...@corp.home.net, ab...@rogers.home.net,
} Interne...@shaw.ca
} cc: David Jackson <davja...@corp.home.net>
} Subject: [RFD] @Home UDP Proposal: A Request for Remedial Action
} Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.96.100010...@usr01.primenet.com>
} Followup-To: news.admin.net-abuse.usenet
Because of this lack of response to serious, ongoing problems, even
when they have been pointed out repeatedly, a full active Usenet
Death Penalty will go into effect at the close of business, 17:00
PST, on Tuesday, 18 January 2000 (19 Jan 2000 01:00:00 GMT).
Please see the Usenet Death Penalty FAQ,
<http://www.stopspam.org/usenet/faqs/udp.html>.
This action will affect all traffic posted to the @Home Network
news servers, having a Path stamp of *.*.*.home.com.POSTED.
It is sincerely hoped that @Home Network. will take appropriate
measures to stem the flow of abuse from their network before this
time. Any assistance which they may require will be gladly
provided.
Should this action become unavoidable, sites not wishing to
participate may alias out the pseudosite homeudp!.
Sites not wanting to participate in any active UDPs may alias out
the pseudosite !udpcancel!.
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The @Home response:
Subject:
Response to Usenet Death Penalty Notice: @Home Network
Date:
Thu, 13 Jan 2000 01:09:32 GMT
From:
Newsgroup Policy Specialist <athom...@corp.home.net>
Organization:
@Home Network
Newsgroups:
news.admin.net-abuse.usenet, news.admin.net-abuse.policy,
news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins, news.admin.announce
To the USENET Community:
In response to the recent UDP call for @Home Network to be removed
from interacting on the USENET, we are submitting an official response
with a proposal of short term and long term news spam prevention
initiatives. Excite@Home is very committed to participating
respectfully on the Internet, and we have taken previous requests for
action seriously.
We have found that the primary source of our excessive USENET posting
history comes from subscribers who have installed proxy software
incorrectly. Unbeknownst to the customer, this mis-configuration has
allowed outside access to the @Home news servers, and has resulted in
our subscribers becoming spam relays. Because these various IP
addresses create holes in our network, spammers have taken advantage
of this mis-configuration, and have posted thousands of newsgroup
messages through our news machines.
As of today, we are stepping up our involvement and taking more
aggressive action by performing frequent network wide scans of our
customer base to target proxy servers. Once these customers are
identified, we are suspending their news service immediately.
Re-enabling will not occur until we are assured that their machines
are secure. We feel that this proactive effort will dramatically
decrease the amount of extraneous news traffic originating from
home.com.
We are committed to promoting better Excite@Home participation on the
USENET, and we are in the process of modifying our current news
product and news architecture. We are also implementing more user
education as a parallel initiative.
With these new tactics in place, we are asking for an extension to our
USENET access beyond the 18th of January and we are confident that the
USENET community will see positive news statistics coming in the next
few days.
David Jackson
Manager, Network Policy Management
Excite@Home
davja...@excitehome.net
Carol
Newsgroup Policy Specialist
Excite@Home
rlo...@sprynet.com
<web-g...@bigfoot.commando> wrote:
>Am I the only one who's never heard of @home??
>
>Manda
>
Cable internet.
ATT@Home, Excite@Home, PacBell@Home, Etc@Home
I can't remember the actual definitions, but "@Home" is the provider while
the designation before that (ATT, etc) is kind of the middle-man.
Markie Mickey Jessie Jessie Jessie
I've never heard of it either. You're not alone : )
I'm too elated that at least some of my posts seem to be showing up though to
care about anything today : ) : )
There's a snake in my boot!,
Markie Mickey Jessie Jessie Jessie Jessie!!!
"That's all he really wanted out of life was love. That was Charlie's story -
how he lost it. You see - he just didn't have any to give."
Vincent Q. Pham
--
Vin
"Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is
to see what you believe."
black_...@my-deja.com
"Vincent Q. Pham" <vp...@genesisracing.com> wrote:
> Grrrr.... @home is my cable modem provider, at my residence that is.
>
Yeah...the Death Penalty finally made the news!
Check out the CNN Tech page and/or any computer news pages.
Robert
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