How to cope with that virus (messages presumably from Turk..

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Dear all,

Who knows how to kill that bull**** that trashes our newsgroup??
I looked at bridge NG at Google, there is NOTHING of a kind there.

Vitaly Novikov

 

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"Combo" <the_novikovs@hotmail.com> wrote
> Who knows how to kill that bull**** that trashes our newsgroup??
> I looked at bridge NG at Google, there is NOTHING of a kind there.

Those gibberish posts are referred to within the posts themselves as
"spambombs." (They aren't a virus.) There's no easy way to stop it. Someone
has a grudge against someone else, and is acting it out by spambombing
certain newsgroups. Perhaps it's that guy who posted looking for help with
level 28, layout 147 of "Egyptian Mahjong," unhappy with the reception he
got. I don't know.

Finding the identity of the spambomber is just the first step. I don't know
what one would do as subsequent steps.

I noticed that even news.announce.newusers has gotten unwelcome spams
lately - and I had been under the impression that only the moderators of
that newsgroup were able to post on it. Technology is wonderful, but only to
a point.

Tom

 

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"Tom Sloper" <tomster@sloperamaNOSPAM.com> wrote in message news:<6Cxlc.22379$Ik.1624085@attbi_s53>...
> Those gibberish posts are referred to within the posts themselves as
> "spambombs." (They aren't a virus.) There's no easy way to stop it. Someone
> has a grudge against someone else, and is acting it out by spambombing
> certain newsgroups.steps.
> ...
> I noticed that even news.announce.newusers has gotten unwelcome spams
> lately - and I had been under the impression that only the moderators of
> that newsgroup were able to post on it. Technology is wonderful, but only to
> a point.
>
> Tom

Tom, I am wondering when posting any message to Google NG there is a
message telling "... it will take from 3 to 9 hours ... to post it". I
always thought that this time is used somehow for cross-checking new
message by robots/ authorities on integrity, viruses, maybe on proper
language, etc. For me it almost clear that guys who are running Google
MUST interfere and cut somehow those "virus"/ "spambombs" from
newsgroups. Otherwise, loyalty to Google is on stake.

Best Regards,

Vitaly Novikov

 

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the_novikovs@hotmail.com (Combo) writes:
> I always thought that this time is used somehow for cross-checking
> new message by robots/ authorities on integrity, viruses, maybe on
> proper language, etc. For me it almost clear that guys who are
> running Google MUST interfere and cut somehow those "virus"/
> "spambombs" from newsgroups. Otherwise, loyalty to Google is on
> stake.

Perhaps I presume too much, but it sounds as if you think Google runs
USENET: it does not. Google archives (some of) the postings on USENET
newsgroups and, apparently, offers a means of posting to groups from
its website: that posting interface may indeed have some sanity
checking built-in, but the delay in seeing a posting would be
propagation delay to the many news servers around the world, not the
time they take to scan new postings from their users.

Some groups are designated "binary" groups, and some as "text"; also,
there would be some kind of length limit, and some groups are
moderated. Other than that, I doubt the originating news server
"looks" at the posts: these machines are VERY busy moving mail from
place to place!

/Symeon

 

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Symeon <fcn@noon.org.NOSPAM> wrote in message news:<uk6zq1vp8.fsf@noon.org>...
> ... some groups are
> moderated.>

[I have cut reply]

Thank you, Symeon, for the information.

I am wondering whether someone can moderate our newsgroup?
Or at least, erase those spammy messages.

Who can do that (at all)?

Vitaly

 

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Vitaly, if any of us knew of something we could do, we would have done it.
Here are some websites I found by typing "how newsgroups work" into Google.

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/newsgroup.htm

http://www.learnthenet.com/english/animate/forums.html

http://www22.verizon.com/about/community/learningcenter/articles/displayarticle1/0,1727,1033z1,00.html

You can find even more of them by using that Google search string. If you
find some course of action that can help, we'd all be grateful.

Tom