On Wed, 13 May 2015 15:30:35 -0500, General E. Pisthoffe
<Pisthoffe@KWTF-TV.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 06:50:57 -0400, Baboso@home.com wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:36:51 -0500, General E. Pisthoffe
>><Pisthoffe@KWTF-TV.com> wrote:
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>>>On 12 Apr 2015 03:34:28 GMT, John Carter <me@mymailsvr.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Did I miss something lately regarding strangely encoded posts?
>>>>
>>>>It would be useful if the poster would give us a clue as to the
>>>>content of these wierdly named posts.
>>>>
>>>>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
>>>
>>>
>>>John, just delete them. They are off-topic and passworded. Most are
>>>current, popular television program episodes.
>>>
>>>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.)
>>>
>>>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.
>
>Which filtering algorythm to you use? There seems to be little in
>common among the filenames or author's ID's. Filtering on a Usenet
>provider would seem to cause deletion of legitamate posts from that
>provider.
>
>Ideas would be welcome. Thanks.
>
>General E. Pisthoffe
>
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I believe that other newsgroup groups have been inundated with these
posts... they are spam, and perhaps just trying to remove older
posts .. flush them off because of the incessant crap they post.
Base on what I had seen at other sites.... I'm surprised that there
is so few here.... it is overwhelming on other groups.
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