On 10/13/2023 12:02 AM, olcott wrote:
> On 10/12/2023 11:43 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> On Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 6:28:21 AM UTC-7, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>> Ross Finlayson <ross.a.f...@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at 4:10:14 AM UTC-7, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>>> Fritz Feldhase <franz.fri...@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> RIP
>>>>>
>>>>> If you read (and post) using a newsreader/news feed combination rather
>>>>> than a browser and Google Groups you can filter out the spam so you
>>>>> don't see it. I use Eternal September for the feed but there are other
>>>>> free NNTP feeds.
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course, the group was arguably dead before the recent flood of spam
>>>>> since it carried nothing by posts from cranks about junk theories, but
>>>>> that did (for a while) have some amusement value.
>>>>
>>>> Usenet is often historically regularly pronounced dead.
>>> Usenet is not dead, and I never said it was. Specific groups are
>>> usually only considered to be alive by people who can't remember (or
>>> didn't care) what they were like in their prime.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ben.
>>
>> Maybe the anonymous vandal will eventually figure out for what time
>> and effort they wasted spamming sci.logic, they could have started a
>> usenet server of their very own, but such poisoners of the commons
>> of the script-kiddiot variety often don't have much in the way of
>> long-term outlook, besides whether or not they are anything but
>> myopic at all.
>>
>> Reminds me of "Meta:  a usenet server for sci.math".  Also I
>> suppose there was "Meta:  decorum", some threads.
>>
>> Somewhere there's a prophecy, it's like "usenet is a wasteland,
>> but someday a real visionary will come along and show us all,
>> fulfilling the charter and explaining Bode's law and numerical
>> coincidence, making Boole invert x^2, and explaining and showing
>> that the hand is evolved to be the same size as the face".
>>
>> Such retards come and go.  That they get their jollies off it
>> usually is from some pages of the psych manual called "sociopaths".
>
> I initially figured that they are simply mentally ill.
> Now I believe that they are doing Denial of Service Attacks.
> ET seems to be handling this quite well. It is still
> showing up on my other server. GigaNews
>

André G. Isaak:
When I say that ET seems to be handling this quite well.
I don't mean this film: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/
I mean this server: news.eternal-september.org

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