301 files from newsone.net newsgroup posting activities. (Model
format)
60 Newsgroup postings were deleted, after 15 hours.
There were claims of major hacker attack,
which turned to abashed embarassment.
It turned out that the NSP owner,
had sent out a world-wide posting.
It invited all users, who had forgotten their passwords,
to just leave it blank. Then a new confirmation password
would be sent. Cinderela was invited to the ball.
Thank you,
Tony Lance
Big Bertha Thing format
Anybody heard of the fly-paper trap?
Where all the flies are collected, in an unsightly mess,
hanging from the kitchen ceiling.
The expensive version is the lizard with a long tongue,
that retracts after each catch.
Take an uncensored version of a usenet newsgroup,
show the subject line of each thread header,
with the total number of postings and the net
number of postings after extracts.
Put the total number of extracts, in the first line,
at the top of the list of postings.
Anyone wishing to search the extracts clicks on it
and finds each person extracted with 2 lines each.
The first line shows the number of thread headers
and the second the number of replies.
Further clicks go down to posting level.
Extract everyone with more than 1000 postings
on any single newsgroup, from all newsgroups.
Examples of the fly-paper trap can be found on:-
http://www.bigberthathing.com/news.html
http://www.bigberthathing.com/want04.html
Tony Lance
tony...@bigberthathing.com
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "David W. Fenton" <XXXuse...@dfenton.com.invalid>
Date: May 30, 6:57 pm
Subject: Any suggestion for Access forums after June 1?
To: microsoft.public.access.formscoding
"Arvin Meyer [MVP]" <arv...@mvps.invalid>
wrote innews:e4I1u4t$KHA....@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl:
> The Microsoft NNTP newsgroups will close.
No, no, no, no.
Usenet simply doesn't work that way.
The MS NNTP server will close, and the web interface to that server
will be gone.
But the newsgroups can and will continue to be propagated on all the
other NNTP servers that carry them.
Now, it's possible for MS to issue a rmgroup command, but those are
so easily forged that most NNTP servers have been ignoring them for
eons, so it's unlikely that any effort MS makes to cleanse Usenet of
its public newsgroups will work.
I recently read that the "powers that be" are considering creating a
bunch of new MS newsgroups in the comp.* hieararchy to replace the
ms.public newsgroups, so keep your eyes open for that.
--
David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/