did Sheldon's ghost kill rbt?

For a couple of weeks the earthlink news
servers blocked all posts from rbt, rbr.
It looks like a massive spam attack of
hundreds of posts selling watches and
other garbage, had hit those two newsgroups.

In article ,
Crescentius Vespasianus wrote:

For a couple of weeks the earthlink news servers blocked all posts
from rbt, rbr. It looks like a massive spam attack of hundreds of
posts selling watches and other garbage, had hit those two
newsgroups.

Weird. I saw basically none of those.

Tim McNamara wrote:
In article ,
Crescentius Vespasianus wrote:

For a couple of weeks the earthlink news servers blocked all posts
from rbt, rbr. It looks like a massive spam attack of hundreds of
posts selling watches and other garbage, had hit those two
newsgroups.

Weird. I saw basically none of those.

ipHouse likely deleted most of the spam.

I did not see them either, so news.motzarella.org must be doing
effective spam filtering. For a while they were also filtering Sorni -
wait, is that not about the same thing?

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

"Tim McNamara" wrote in message
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In article ,
Crescentius Vespasianus wrote:

For a couple of weeks the earthlink news servers blocked all posts
from rbt, rbr. It looks like a massive spam attack of hundreds of
posts selling watches and other garbage, had hit those two
newsgroups.

Weird. I saw basically none of those.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tak Nakamoto"
Newsgroups: ba.bicycles
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 10:08 PM
Subject: Testing 1-2-3


Earthlink purged their news servers today and restocked with re-numbered
headers. You'll need to dump your newsgroup files and restart from
scratch.

Tak Nakamoto


"Tom Kunich" cyclintom@yahoo. com wrote in message
m...
Hey, my EarthLink account doesn't seem to be updated. I wonder if this
will get to the group.

On Apr 9, 9:15 pm, Crescentius Vespasianus
wrote:
For a couple of weeks the earthlink news
servers blocked all posts from rbt, rbr.
It looks like a massive spam attack of
hundreds of posts selling watches and
other garbage, had hit those two newsgroups.

It is well known fact that recreational bicycle technicians
buy a lot of Chinese watches. Every one that I know has at
least 20 of them - one for each hand.

On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:29:38 -0500, Tim McNamara
may have said:

In article ,
Crescentius Vespasianus wrote:

For a couple of weeks the earthlink news servers blocked all posts
from rbt, rbr. It looks like a massive spam attack of hundreds of
posts selling watches and other garbage, had hit those two
newsgroups.

Weird. I saw basically none of those.

I saw enough to lart them mercilessly. They tapered off after a
while. I didn't check the Earthstink feed; that company's support for
Usenet boils down to "why bother, nobody uses it anyway." They've
failed to update their servers for weeks at a time more than once.
When I griped at their tech support about one such incident a while
back, the droid did not even know what Usenet was, and could not grasp
the idea that it involved a server under Earthlink's control which was
not fetching any feeds.

--
My email address is antispammed; pull WEEDS if replying via e-mail.
Typoes are not a bug, they're a feature.
Words processed in a facility that contains nuts.

| For a couple of weeks the earthlink news
| servers blocked all posts from rbt, rbr.
| It looks like a massive spam attack of
| hundreds of posts selling watches and
| other garbage, had hit those two newsgroups.

What? Off-topic and irrelevant posts on RBR? Send in the Marines!

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

Crescentius Vespasianus wrote:
For a couple of weeks the earthlink news servers blocked all posts from
rbt, rbr. It looks like a massive spam attack of hundreds of posts
selling watches and other garbage, had hit those two newsgroups.

Earthlink changed their servers again.
First they outsourced to Supernews about a year ago.
First of the month it went to Giganews.
I think it is unfiltered in hopes that you will subscribe and pay extra
for that service.

See my headers for who I use. Filtered, but sometimes they go down on
the weekends.

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 22:59:08 -0700, "Mike Jacoubowsky"
may have said:

| For a couple of weeks the earthlink news
| servers blocked all posts from rbt, rbr.
| It looks like a massive spam attack of
| hundreds of posts selling watches and
| other garbage, had hit those two newsgroups.

What? Off-topic and irrelevant posts on RBR? Send in the Marines!

Can't. They're busy. All we got is clowns.


--
My email address is antispammed; pull WEEDS if replying via e-mail.
Typoes are not a bug, they're a feature.
Words processed in a facility that contains nuts.

On Apr 9, 10:15*pm, Crescentius Vespasianus
wrote:
For a couple of weeks the earthlink news
servers blocked all posts from rbt, rbr.
* It looks like a massive spam attack of
hundreds of posts selling watches and
other garbage, had hit those two newsgroups.

I'm an infrequent poster and access r.b.t through Google Groups. I
would guess that over half the postings of the last few weeks are
sales spam. Quite annoying. Hard to believe that marketing
technique results in any sales. I would also think it leaves the
spammers open to hacking by revenge-minded individuals.