Last-modified: 2003-10-04 (revision 1.14)
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Archive-name: net-abuse-faq/newsgroups
URL: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/nana-groups.html
Original-author: Fluffy usa.net>
Posting-frequency: weekly

We have a plentiful selection of newsgroups about network abuse and
related issues, but what is the best one to use? Here are excerpts from
the newsgroups' charters, with emphasis added to help make things clear.
Please refer to the full charters, URLs included here when available, if
you would like more detail.

If you want to learn more about network abuse -- what it is, what can be
done about it and just what all those acronyms mean -- Tim Skirvin has
pointers to more sources of information at:

<http://www.killfile.org/~tskirvin/nana/>

Thank you for following these recommendations. It will make these
newsgroups more useful for all involved.

Network Abuse Newsgroups:

This is a revision of the previous FAQ upon Google spam.
Again, your comments, additions, corrected are requested.

What to do about Google spam.

Google groups is the major source of spam on Usenet. Google groups is
also a large source of off topic and/or idiotic posts. For that reason,
a growing number of people are now blocking all posts from Google groups.

http://www.improve-usenet.org/index.html

It is useless to complain to Google, office number (650) 253-0000.
However it is easy to avoid the deluge of spam from Google.
First use a news server other then Google.
Second download a real news reader that will allow filtering.
Filtering can be used to block most spam or alternatively, to simply block
all Google posts (most efficiently done filtering on Message-ID).

NNTP news servers
Most ISP include a news server with the account
http://www.teranews.com (one time $3.95 set up cost, worth it)
news://news.aioe.org text only, no cost

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Art Deco caballista.org> wrote in
news:280420081856548134%%erfc@caballista.org:

While Dr. Tholen hasn't won this award since March 2005 and deserves
another shot, I'll withhold seconding this nomination until a suitable
opponent is found.

Art Deco caballista.org>
<280420081856548134%%erfc@caballista.org>
: Friendly Neighborhood Vote Wrangler caballista.org>
:
: >Greetings, kooks, kookologists, independent trolls, and lurkers
: >supporting us (TINU) in email!
: >
: >Thanks to all of you who have contributed so far to the ballot. That
: >said, there are still unopposed candidates who need opponents and
: >nominees who need seconds to be placed on the ballot. In particular,
: >a second is needed for Lady Veteran, so there will be two nominated
: >and seconded candidates for Kook of the Month. Please look
: >through the lits below, then nominate and second the worthy as you
: >(tiny) see fit. You have until 23:59:59 EDT on April 30th to make
: >your nominations and seconds.
: >
: >Without any further ado, here are the nominations so far, along with
: >the nominator, seconder, and status of the nomination. If you
: >know of any nominations that were missed, please respond with the
: >message ID of the nomination post. Also, one can second ...

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Hey Deco,

Is there an award that would be suitable for the poster named
"w_tom"? Check his profile, and you will notice that he ALWAYS jumps
in on any discussion involving surge protectors. No matter which
newsgroup is discussing surge protectors, he will find it and jump
in. He has done this every single day for the last several years. It
is quite the obsession, but it is different from the obsession that
Tholen exhibits.

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:56:54 -0600, Art Deco caballista.org>
painted a red bull's eye on his forehead, ascended the altar of Fluffy
and shouted:

[....]

Art Deco caballista.org> writes:

Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.

Classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim.

Classic erroneous presupposition.

Classic erroneous presupposition.

Who is "nelohT", Deco? There is nobody in this newsgroup using that
alias.

What does that have to do with college basketball, Deco?

Friendly Neighborhood Vote Wrangler caballista.org> wrote: