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Greg N. wrote:
DoN. Nichols wrote:

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So -- is there a reason why I find it invisible? Did it
possibly have attachments? Some news servers block attachments in

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Or was this posted some time ago, and may have expired already?

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I agree with blocking such binaries too, DoN, but i didn't see any
attached to the original post.

I've pasted the original below, minus the bulk of the body, in case
you're interested in the header.

Thanks! No obvious reason why it never got here. Date is
recent. ISP is one which I am not blocking. (I'm blocking a very few
news servers -- one because it was not only the hose of Cass (which
would not take action on any complaints), but also it turned out to host
a bunch of trolls who made news.admin.net-abuse.usenet unreadable.
(They are there for the same reason -- the ISP doesn't honor complaints,
no matter how valid.) My wife is very happy with the results of
blocking that news server. :-)

The others are ones which Hipcrime seems to favor for his
attacks on news.admin.net-abuse.email (and other usenet newsgroups.)
Rather than have my news server's load average go sky high trying to
reject them on the basis of contents, I just toss them on receipt. :-)

I can always tell when there is one of the attacks going on,
because my logs show several hundred to a thousand rejected articles
from that news server, instead of the typical two or three. :-) (Granted,
I only carry a small subset of the news groups, far from the whole
thing. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.
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