Bill wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Bill wrote:
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
AIOE blocked it for a while after complaints about hundreds of forged
messages were posted through their servers. In fact, all of the
sci.electronics.* groups were blocked.


That just proves that there are idiots all over the place.
Alt.os.linux.ubuntu and c.o.linux.advocacy have 2 or 3 users who
routinely cross-post junk. The posters should be kicked off with an all
news groups ban on them, and not destroy it for all the serious users.
Keeping a ban filter on offenders IP's would be much simpler.
Bill Baka


I didn't say they were cross posting, they were disrupting most
threads by forging the names of regular users. The troll was doing his
best to disrupt all of the sci.electronics newsgroups, till AIOE got
tired of all the reports. AIOE doesn't require an account, or
verification of your identity. It was designed for anonymous trolling,
from the ground, up and extremely easy to abuse. Most people using
Newsproxy drop all messages posted from AIOE, so there is little or no
chance of it happening again. That also makes it fairly useless for day
to day use on the sci.electronics.* newsgroups. I have newsproxy set to
flag AIOE at the moment, or I wouldn't have seen the 'test' post.
Several other free NNTP servers are filtered out, as well as Google
groups and trolling newsgroups that cross post to start crap.

I hear that and agree since some jokers are now posting porn Spam on
multiple groups. If AIOE is that open then it is basically useless to
the serious core group users.


That was my point, exactly. If almost no one sees it, it's useless.


As far as your problems on Linux newsgroups, it doesn't surprise me
one bit. The ****ty attitude some Linux users have is the perfect
breeding ground for crap like that.


I use both, and DOS even, so I don't have the attitude, but I do get
**** for posting from XP if that's what I'm doing for the day. Some of
them actually check the header to see what system I'm using and call me
a Win-tard or some other junk from some teenager. They think the Linux
command line is the only one and are too young to realize that some of
us have actually used 'scripts', originating from the DOS batch file
ability.


Or that some of us used computers before they were even born. Too bad
I lost that copy of Windows 1.0, they would really freak. ;-)

I have a couple systems with Linux on them, but I can't do a lot of
the work I need on them, so they are rarely used. In fact, I keep a Win
ME computer around for some OCR and scanning software. It does things
software for newer OS don't, and I have multiple scanners and spare
hardware to keep it on my network, for years. I can scan a wrinkled,
stained old schematic or data sheet and clean it up in a few minutes,
where the newer software has large blocks blacked out. The HP XP
compatible scanners and software I have aren't TWAIN compliant, or work
with Paperport without a lot of file conversions.


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