Some quite interesting stuff happened to me lately regarding USENET, I

thought it you'd like to hear this one:



A few days ago (a day like any other), I find a great deal of USENET

posts posted all over the newsgroups I usualy visit. They were

flood-like had a pretty cryptic form of English in them and they were

completely unrelated to the newsgroups they were posted to.



The first odd thing I noticed was that it noted to be posted from

diffirent people, diffirent e-mail addresses and diffirent machines (all

names seemed normal tho).



I looked into one of the posts and I noticed that the poor English texts

were about how stupid abuse-prevention systems are and how much nerves

are they going to cause to the news-server administrators (that were

supposed to give up some day).



I told my news-reader to display full headers and I noticed a pattern,

atho most information was random from post to post, but it was all sent

from Sympatico (in Canada, do you know it?). There was even a nicely

provided abuse-report e-mail address.



So, I looked up the most relevant newsgroup (news:comp.ai.philosophy)

and replied with a notion on what was the repeating pattern and what is

the abuse-report address I was about to report it all too. Later I

reported it (with all the information I could get).



But later that afternoon, my post was GONE from the newsgroups. Where

did it go?



The next day I see a guy (or bot, I'm not sure) named "Guido the

Ressurector" re-posted my e-mail with an X-Comment in the header noting

that "The following Usenet article was cancelled, more than likely by

someone other than the original poster."



Note that such canceling (not by the sender) is considered ILLEGAL, news

servers do not allow it (you have to prove that you are really you

before you're allowed to cancel).



The story is still on, since I don't know if the flooder/hacker is

'dead' or is he/she/it still about to bother my postings.





...And 'stab' some hackers if you get a chance to. =] C'ya!



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