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rossum

2007-05-11, 4:18 am

There is currently an attack on sci.crypt - lots of automatically
generated spurious posts.

Because the open source voting threads have been crossposted there
they are getting some collateral damage. Many threads on sci.crypt
are being attacked.

I suggest reposting but without including sci.crypt in the
crossposting list. That should avoid the bulk of the problem. Once
the attack has died down sci.crypt can be included again.

rossum

Koster, H

2007-05-12, 4:19 am

Op Fri, 11 May 2007 09:46:37 +0100, schreef rossum:

> There is currently an attack on sci.crypt - lots of automatically
> generated spurious posts.


o really? :-)
It's the 1st time i see an attack like this.

--
grtz,
Henk Koster jr.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~qqoopp/foss.htm

rossum

2007-05-12, 10:11 pm

On Sat, 12 May 2007 08:38:40 +0200, "Koster, H"
<inter.infra.haalweg@spamtrap.xs4all.nl> wrote:

>Op Fri, 11 May 2007 09:46:37 +0100, schreef rossum:
>
>
>o really? :-)
>It's the 1st time i see an attack like this.


See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipcrime_(Usenet)

sci.crypt has been attacked before. Cryptography seems to attrack a
higher than average proportion of net kooks.

rossum

Gerry Quinn

2007-06-07, 10:11 pm

In article <rva843dqm95vppamle19ubidtcq9etc1gd@4ax.com>, rossum48
@coldmail.com says...

> There is currently an attack on sci.crypt - lots of automatically
> generated spurious posts.


Probably by one of their own.

- Gerry Quinn
Jim Hubbard

2007-06-08, 4:20 am


"Gerry Quinn" <gerryq@indigo.ie> wrote in message
news:MPG.20d2d5cef7f7c43598b8ee@news1.eircom.net...
> In article <rva843dqm95vppamle19ubidtcq9etc1gd@4ax.com>, rossum48
> @coldmail.com says...
>
>
> Probably by one of their own.
>
> - Gerry Quinn


Don't worry. It's just David Blaine and one of his damned annoying
newsgroup illusions.



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