Re: rec.mag,alt.zima,misc.writing,alt.music.jungle,alt.desert-storm

Jeff C

From:	Jeff C
Subject:	Re: rec.mag,alt.zima,misc.writing,alt.music.jungle,alt.desert-storm
Date:	Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:02:09 -0800

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 03:09:20 -0600, "Dane Metcalfe"
wrote:

>You are definately ill

That was a forged post by a USENET vandal known as "hipcrime". Dippy
hates USENET, and especially it hates news.admin.net-abuse.email, so
it wrote a piece of abuseware known as "newsagent" that allows it to
forge supercede posts and force follow-ups to flood NANAE with
thousands of "WTF" posts such as yours.

What to do about it is simple. First, look at the headers of a few
forged posts, and filter on the commonly identifiable elements. Lately
dippy's been abusing news servers in northern Europe. If you subscribe
to a service such as Supernews, the filtering is already done for you.
Second, if you feel you MUST reply to a dippyspew post, look very
carefully at where the post will be sent before you send it. This will
ensure that you don't accidentally pollute another group thus doing
dippy's vandalism for it. Third, now that you're immune to this id10t,
join in the defense by posting a message similar to this one whenever
you see a dippyspew in your newsgroup. The more people who know about
dippy, the less damage it can do.