rec.birds scheduled for sporge flood

supe...@rec.birds

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Aug 8, 2007, 9:37:19 PM8/8/07

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Sporge flooding of rec.birds will commence in a few hours.

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

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Les Stewart

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Aug 9, 2007, 12:56:55 AM8/9/07

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<supe...@rec.birds> wrote:
> Sporge flooding of rec.birds will commence in a few hours.
>
> This will render rec.birds useless.

Not to worry... I have my tin-foil hat on!

" "Sporge" is a made up word used to describe a forgery-flood intended to
disrupt a newsgroup. It's origins are from spam and forge... "
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Les Stewart
Beaumont, TX 30ºN 94ºW

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Les Stewart

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Aug 9, 2007, 1:08:00 AM8/9/07

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Very odd....... when I click "Reply Group" using Outlook Express as my
newsreader..... it sends the post to "sci.crypt" (unless I manually correct
it) which a quick glance showed to be some sort of cryptology newsgroup.

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Cheryl Isaak

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Aug 9, 2007, 6:57:49 AM8/9/07

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On 8/9/07 3:11 AM, in article 0P3nn5c$4ruG...@indaal.demon.co.uk, "Malcolm"
<Mal...@indaal.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>
> In article <Kixui.2402$jO3....@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com>, Les Stewart
> <no...@nnnoooohow.com> writes

>> Very odd....... when I click "Reply Group" using Outlook Express as my
>> newsreader..... it sends the post to "sci.crypt" (unless I manually correct
>> it) which a quick glance showed to be some sort of cryptology newsgroup.
>

> No, it isn't odd at all, because if you look at the headers of the
> original message you will see that the poster had set follow-ups to
> sci.crypt, which has, indeed, been subject to a flood of thousands of
> meaningless posts. If it happens here, we'll just have to live with it
> until whoever thinks it fun to do goes somewhere else.
Exactly mine advice - just wait it out. Rec.gardens had one recently, but a
really vile person or persons behind it. Nasty and verging on pornographic,
not just stupid.
C

SteveB

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Aug 9, 2007, 12:00:34 PM8/9/07

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> <supe...@rec.birds> wrote:
>> Sporge flooding of rec.birds will commence in a few hours.
>>
>> This will render rec.birds useless.

We have a use? Please post the part of the charter that says this! ;-)

I guess everyone gets to get in some licks on people they don't like in the
next couple of weeks, and blame it on sporge, then.

Steve

Cheryl Isaak

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Aug 9, 2007, 2:12:01 PM8/9/07

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On 8/9/07 12:00 PM, in article cpmro4-...@news.infowest.com, "SteveB"
<desertt...@hi-speed.us> wrote:

You mean we're not one big happy family?
(running, ducking and hiding)
C

bthache

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Aug 9, 2007, 2:26:08 PM8/9/07

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**Choke!** Cheryl, you're funny!!

;)

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Howard Lester

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Aug 9, 2007, 2:21:05 PM8/9/07

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"Cheryl Isaak" wrote

> You mean we're not one big happy family?
> (running, ducking and hiding)
> C

Better than goosing....

Cheryl Isaak

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Aug 9, 2007, 3:33:16 PM8/9/07

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On 8/9/07 2:21 PM, in article f9fluk$2ps$1...@onion.ccit.arizona.edu, "Howard
Lester" <hle...@mmto.org> wrote:

I hate getting goosed.

Cheryl Isaak

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Aug 9, 2007, 3:33:41 PM8/9/07

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On 8/9/07 2:26 PM, in article 4%Iui.42767$_d2.2132@pd7urf3no, "bthache"
<bth...@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> **Choke!** Cheryl, you're funny!!
>
> ;)

Happy to help...

Howard Lester

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Aug 9, 2007, 7:22:47 PM8/9/07

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"Cheryl Isaak" wrote

>>> You mean we're not one big happy family?
>>> (running, ducking and hiding)
>>> C

>> Better than goosing....

> I hate getting goosed.

*quack!* (friendly greeting to a family member)

Cheryl Isaak

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Aug 9, 2007, 7:54:34 PM8/9/07

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On 8/9/07 7:22 PM, in article 13bn8ee...@corp.supernews.com, "Howard
Lester" <heyl...@dakotacom.net> wrote:

Quack!

SteveB

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Aug 10, 2007, 1:51:14 AM8/10/07

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"Cheryl Isaak" <chery...@comcast.net> wrote in message

news:C2E0E43C.6D0BF%chery...@comcast.net...

Old joke:

"I've been geesed!"
"Don't you mean goosed?"
"I can count!"

Steve

Cheryl Isaak

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Aug 10, 2007, 7:34:47 AM8/10/07

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On 8/10/07 1:51 AM, in article se7to4-...@news.infowest.com, "SteveB"
<desertt...@hi-speed.us> wrote:

Wasn't that a Marx Brothers line?

Rick

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Aug 10, 2007, 4:19:36 PM8/10/07

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Les Stewart wrote:
> Very odd....... when I click "Reply Group" using Outlook Express as my
> newsreader..... it sends the post to "sci.crypt" (unless I manually correct
> it) which a quick glance showed to be some sort of cryptology newsgroup.

Interesting, I use SeaMonkey, and when I hit <Reply> is went to
"supe...@rec.birds" The original post was blank too.

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Tomi Häsä

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Aug 14, 2007, 2:34:09 PM8/14/07

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On Aug 9, 4:37 am, supern...@rec.birds wrote:
> Sporge flooding of rec.birds 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/