On Aug 9, 3:54 am, wrote:
Sporge flooding of rec.crafts.metalworking will commence in a few hours.

To help better filter this spammer, here are some of the sporge flood
warning messages in newsgroups where the sporge flood attacks actually
took place around August 2007:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.s...609e72b81657d3
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...4ac60c079cd790
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...31ae90a4dea2b4
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.b...8351b0d791ccfe
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.b...a67e72d09863f7
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.c...00c96633eebbe8
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.s...98ae0e318da147
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.r...83dfda93f5c65f
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.re...a9bf0da081b6fc

Some of the false alarms (at least so far):

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.s...3f809d66e45295
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.s...c3de6d913a2705
http://groups.google.com/group/cn.bb...10d63ad0eb9908
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....824f6602ce1379
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....769d8738ae1216
http://groups.google.com/group/de.re...21c13b8bba07c0
http://groups.google.com/group/de.sc...c3a1ef2f0eb172
http://groups.google.com/group/de.sc...78aeb76f5c5de5
http://groups.google.com/group/hr.sc...7713a83b999dd8
http://groups.google.com/group/hsinc...d7683ffbe8d2c3
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...20949c67e16ab0
http://groups.google.com/group/nctu....6c7a53573a1228
http://groups.google.com/group/pl.re...52b644d8b23365
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.f...ae07838100e097
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.m...94f1192ae57b5b
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.v...1f65d13c9f15b5
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.d...32fc25d6a35fdb
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.m...eb85a1cebe1f3c
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.c...7f51f97e7aebc3
http://groups.google.com/group/syman...bc1fed70e17e43
http://groups.google.com/group/tw.bb...318dada8fb2727
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.go...de383f915f367d

More sporge flood warning messages can be found with this search:

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q...=2007&safe=off

Filtering suggestion for the sporge flood attacks:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.c...869a7d856ef65e

More info about sporge flood attacks for newbies who might find this
thread confusing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporgery
http://bernie.cncfamily.com/sc/sporg.htm
http://www.wordsonline.org/Sporge
http://www.dansdata.com/sporge.htm
http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/sporgart.htm
http://www.talkaboutreligion.com/gro...s/1242545.html
http://www.holysmoke.org/forgeries/giganews.htm
http://www.usenetplus.com/blog/2007/...ge-and-lamers/