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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. |
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did Sheldon's ghost kill rbt?
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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. |
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did Sheldon's ghost kill rbt?
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 |
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"Tim McNamara" wrote in message ... 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| 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 |
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did Sheldon's ghost kill rbt?
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. |
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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. |
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did Sheldon's ghost kill rbt?
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. |
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