According to Jon Elson :


Larry Jaques wrote:
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:53:15 -0700, with neither quill nor qualm,
"azotic" quickly quoth:


The crap posts seem to be originating from the University of Crete, suppose
we start forwarding all these crap posts back to their webmaster:



anyone know how create a bot that would automaticly forward this **** back
to its origin as soon as it hits usenet or rcm. The webmaster should be able
to track
down the idiots posting from thier network and put an end to this crap.


Don't BECOME a spammer just because you have been spammed, Zot.
U of Crete has obviously been used by the spamming assholes.
Well, once informed that they have a compromised system, it is their DUTY to
get it disconnected, disinfected and cleaned up!

That appears to be just what they have done -- once they got in
on Monday and discovered what had been running. The people who
perpetrate these things like to start on late Friday night to get the
maximum time before the admin staff is back to deal with the problem.

At least the garbage has stopped here. There were only about a
hundred or so left over from last night -- which probably came via
slower paths. And I haven't seen any more after I post something (which
normally convinces my newsreader to check for new news).

Enjoy,
DoN.

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