Re: ascii-art

Colin Douthwaite (cfb...@southern.co.nz) wrote:
: Veronica Karlsson <dre...@on.spammer> wrote:
: >Skippy wrote:
: >
: >> Attention: Inhabitants of alt.ascii-art

: >> The collection of witless retards that inhabit this rather dull
:   newsgroup, have been targeted by the alt.life.sucks crew.
:   We fully intend to flame you for our amusement over the coming few
:   weeks, and, as our group name suggests, are going to make your pitiful
:   lives suck even more than they do at this moment in time.
: >>
: >> We expect you unsophisticated serfs to engage us in a bandwidth
:   destroying flame war. Being the generous people we are, we'll allow
:   you worthless cretins to pick the subject.
: >>
:   Failure to comply with our instructions will result in this group
:   being the subject of a very large recursive cascade.

: >> You have been warned.

: >> -
: >> Skippy the Bush Kangaroo


: > I hope I didn't cause this by accidentally answer to a post later in
: > a thread started by the same message in alt.animals.felines. I don't
: > know what this guy is up to, but apparently it's nothing good... My
: > suggestion is - ignore him! (I intend to, after this post)  :(


: It may be a troll but it could in fact be a proposed newsgroup
: destruction attack which get launched from certain alt.* newsgroups.

: If that happens the best defence is for all readers here would be:

:  - to strictly avoid responding to such postings;

:  - keep copies of full messages and the full messags headers and
:    forward them to abu...@isp.wherever-applies;

:  - alert the "news.admin.net-abuse.sightings" newsgroup (setting
:    followups to "news.admin.net-abuse.usenet") with example
:    messages/headers and ask their advice...then follow it.

:  - email your own ISP with a sample message and full headers and
:    ask for their help and advice.


: There are other some things the alt.ascii-art readership can do if
: something nasty actually develops here. Meanwhile use anti-troll
: measures...mainly...strictly ignore and do not be tempted to respond!


: The Net-Abuse newsgroups for your reference are:

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: --------------------------------------------------------------------

: From flu...@meow.org Tue Mar 10 00:00:12 1998
: Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.misc,news.admin.net-abuse.usenet,
: news.admin.net-abuse.email
: Subject: "POINTER: ALL THESE NET-ABUSE GROUPS! WHICH ONE SHOULD I USE?"
: From: flu...@meow.org (Fluffy)
: Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 08:00:12 GMT

: URL: http://world.std.com/~flufster/faqs/nana-what.html
: Posting-frequency: weekly
: Last-modified: Tue Jul 22 05:39:05 EDT 1997


: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

:    We have a plentiful selection of news.admin.net-abuse newsgroups,
:    but what is the right one to use? Here are excerpts from the
:    newsgroups' charters, with emphasis added to help make things
:    clear. Please refer to the full charters, URLs included here, if
:    you would like more detail.

:    If you want to learn more about network abuse -- what it is, what
:    can be done about it and just what all those acronyms mean --
:    Stan Kalisch keeps an extensive list of informational documents at
:    <URL:http://www.crl.com/~sjkiii/news-admin-net-abuse.html>

:    Thank you for following these recommendations. It will make the
:    net-abuse newsgroups more useful for all involved.

:      * news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins (moderated)

:        "News.admin.net-abuse.bulletins is a moderated forum for
:        BULLETINS OF ACTION TAKEN AGAINST NET ABUSE. Appropriate
:        subjects include cancellation notices (EMP/ECP, spew, binary,
:        and others), status reports from individual systems
:        concerning action taken against abusers, results of tracking
:        campaigns, "rogue site" declarations, and the like." You
:        brought down a spammer? This is the place to report it.
:        Charter
:        <URL:http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/home/nana/nanab.charter>


:      * news.admin.net-abuse.sightings (robomoderated)

:        "News.admin.net-abuse.sightings is a forum for REPORTS OF
:        SIGHTINGS OF NET ABUSE. It is a robomoderated forum, allowing
:        only properly formatted posts. Followups are required to be
:        set strictly out of the group and into the appropriate group
:        in the news.admin.net-abuse.* hierachy."
:        Charter
:        <URL:http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/home/nana/nanas.charter>


:      * news.admin.net-abuse.policy (robomoderated)

:        "News.admin.net-abuse.policy is a moderated forum for
:        DISCUSSION of policy and site-management issues related to
:        net abuse.  Possible topics include Acceptable Use Policies,
:        what actions should be taken against abusers, discussion of
:        third-party cancel messages, possible actions against abusive
:        sites such as rogue site declarations, discussion of what is
:        and is not net abuse, and so forth." Crossposting is not
:        allowed here.
:        Charter
:        <URL:http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/home/nana/nanap.charter>


:      * news.admin.net-abuse.email

:        "News.admin.net-abuse.email is a forum for DISCUSSION of
:        possible abuses of e-mail. Possible topics include
:        mailbombing, denial-of-service attacks, "listserv bombs",
:        unsolicited and/or unwanted mail, email address lists,
:        mailing list abuse, large-scale mailings in general, chain
:        letters, "email viruses" such as Good Times, filtering
:        software such as procmail, and so forth. Flames and other
:        personal attacks received through email are not on-topic,
:        unless they are related to another form of abuse." Please DO
:        NOT post reports and sightings here.
:        Charter
:        <URL:http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/home/nana/nanae.charter>


:      * news.admin.net-abuse.usenet

:        "News.admin.net-abuse.usenet is a forum for DISCUSSION of
:        possible abuses of Usenet (as defined in
:        news.announce.newusers). Possible topics include spamming or
:        Excessive Multi-Posting (EMP), Excessive Cross-Posting (ECP),
:        Usenet chain letters such as MAKE.MONEY.FAST, forged or
:        third-party cancellations, broken Usenet gateways, forgery of
:        another user, forged approvals in moderated groups, massively
:        crossposted "flametrolls", abuse of the newsgroup creation
:        system, general purpose netiquette, and so forth." Please DO
:        NOT post reports and sightings here.
:        Charter
:        <URL:http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/home/nana/nanau.charter>


:      * news.admin.net-abuse.misc

:        "News.admin.net-abuse.misc is a forum for DISCUSSION of
:        possible net abuse NOT COVERED BY THE REST OF THE
:        NEWS.ADMIN.NET-ABUSE.* HIERARCHY. Possible topics include
:        ping-storming, site aliasing, denial of service attacks, and
:        anything else that DOES NOT FIT INTO THE OTHER FORUMS in the
:        news.admin.net-abuse. hierarchy." Please DO NOT post reports
:        and sightings here.
:        Charter
:        <URL:http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/home/nana/nanam.charter>


:      * alt.flame.net-abuse

:        Are you simply fed up with spam, the spammer-despammer
:        conflicts, or the people who post to the net-abuse
:        newsgroups? You just want to vent some steam? Please take it
:        here.


:      * alt.humor.net-abuse

:        Like all current events, network abuse has attracted its
:        share of artists. You can find their stories, poems, songs
:        and jokes here.

: ====================================================================


: Bye,

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