Damn...I have been using newsgroups for years and never came across
something like that.

I currently access groups through my Outlook program going through Comcast
which uses giganews.

Even though I have been using computers since 1982, good old Commodore and
Radio Shack junk, I hardly understood a word you were saying. But thanks
anyways.

Dave
"Jeff C" <jeff_c10@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bc2us0hme8r6kbimu2h4mj6pgt22kbpnv6@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:50:32 -0800, "halo2 guy"
> <somewhereovethe@rainbow.com> wrote:
>
>>What the hell is this about
>>
>
> 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
> dipy'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 NUST 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.