From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,212a8e12b16ecb51 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-31 12:42:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Gibberish posts Message-ID: References: <3b656a4c.22572607@news.geccs.gecm.com> <9k70hg$j35$1@mochi.lava.net> Followup-To: comp.lang.ada Organization: LJK Software Date: 31 Jul 2001 15:42:13 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 996608535 216.44.122.34 (Tue, 31 Jul 2001 19:42:15 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 19:42:15 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10890 Date: 2001-07-31T15:42:13-05:00 List-Id: In article <9k70hg$j35$1@mochi.lava.net>, lofstrom@lava.net (Karen Lofstrom) writes: > In article <3b656a4c.22572607@news.geccs.gecm.com>, Chris M. Moore wrote: > >> I'm sorry to have to inform you that you have failed the Turing test. >> You have however attained the level of "lyrics by At The Drive In" so >> you are nearly there; keep up the good work. > > The forged gibberish post was crossposted to news.admin.net-abuse.email, > which is under attack by a jerk who calls himself Hipcrime. He is flooding > the group with thousands (100,000 or more over the last month) of forged > posts through insecure servers. He is crossposting to random groups in > hopes that people will reply and fail to trim the newsgroups line, thus > adding to the noise in nanae. > > It's an attack on Usenet. Film at 11. Are you saying the Complaints header was forged as well ?