"raden" wrote in message
...

There seem to be a lot of posts purporting to be from the previous poster
in a thread containing weird recipes

Is everybody else getting them, and does anybody know what's going on ?


Answer courtesy of Jeff C on rec.autos.makers.honda:
That was a forged post by a USENET vandal known as "hipcrime". Dippy
hates USENET, and especially it hates news.admin.net-abuse.email, so
it wrote a piece of abuseware known as "newsagent" that allows it to
forge supercede posts and force follow-ups to flood NANAE with
thousands of "WTF" posts such as yours.

What to do about it is simple. First, look at the headers of a few
forged posts, and filter on the commonly identifiable elements. Lately
dipy's been abusing news servers in northern Europe. If you subscribe
to a service such as Supernews, the filtering is already done for you.
Second, if you feel you NUST reply to a dippyspew post, look very
carefully at where the post will be sent before you send it. This will
ensure that you don't accidentally pollute another group thus doing
dippy's vandalism for it. Third, now that you're immune to this id10t,
join in the defense by posting a message similar to this one whenever
you see a dippyspew in your newsgroup. The more people who know about
dippy, the less damage it can do.

HTH,
Al