On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:36:51 -0500, General E. Pisthoffe
<Pisthoffe@KWTF-TV.com> wrote:
>On 12 Apr 2015 03:34:28 GMT, John Carter <me@mymailsvr.org> wrote:
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>>Did I miss something lately regarding strangely encoded posts?
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>>It would be useful if the poster would give us a clue as to the
>>content of these wierdly named posts.
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>>Knowing the content of these posts would benefit everyone by not
>>having to potentially waste bandwidth to determine whether or not
>>one had some interest.
>>
>>John Carter
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>John, just delete them. They are off-topic and passworded. Most are
>current, popular television program episodes.
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>To avoid DCMA takedowns, a group of posters have resorted to encoding
>filenames, passwording the files, and posting them in off-topic groups
>all over Usenet. Only members of the group get the keys, and, NO, you
>can't join. Pain in the ass, but simply deleting them is a small price
>to pay for all the other neat stuff available in this and all the
>other groups that target your interests. (Strangely, they haven't
>shown up in any of the porno groups yet, but no doubt these blokes
>will start antagonizing them, too.)
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>General E Pistoffe
>"and I'm generally pissed off"
>"and, no, I'm not part of that clandestine group of uploaders"
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using your kill filter is even a better idea.
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