I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to the Box
Extender thread, as does grumpyat@

Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.

It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.

WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

The Medway Handyman wrote:
I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to the
Box Extender thread, as does grumpyat@

Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.

It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.

WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?

Someone is sporging - IE using yours and others' names to post religous
claptrap, they are in Edinburgh and are Virgin customers...tha is, the
machine is - it could be a zombie.
Ignore it - if it becomes a problem it will get reported and VM will pull
the plug.

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:21:37 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to the Box
Extender thread, as does grumpyat@

Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.

It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.

WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipcrime_%28Usenet%29



--
Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd.
http://www.sandrila.co.uk/ http://www.pherber.com/

On 24/01/2008 23:21, The Medway Handyman wrote:

I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to the Box
Extender thread, as does grumpyat@

Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.

It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.

WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?

I'm not seeing it, but it must be sporging :-(

Phil L wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?

Someone is sporging - IE using yours and others' names to post religous
claptrap, they are in Edinburgh and are Virgin customers...tha is, the
machine is - it could be a zombie.
Ignore it - if it becomes a problem it will get reported and VM will pull
the plug.

Interestingly Eclipse Internet seem to be filtering it out of my news
feed, but I see it Google Groups, so it obviously already being caught
by some filtration system.

Phil L wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to the
Box Extender thread, as does grumpyat@

Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.

It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.

WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?

Someone is sporging - IE using yours and others' names to post
religous claptrap, they are in Edinburgh and are Virgin
customers...tha is, the machine is - it could be a zombie.
Ignore it - if it becomes a problem it will get reported and VM will
pull the plug.

I've reported it to Virgin, but I'd much prefer kicking the sh*t out of
whoever it is.

Another use for a Fubar.


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

The Medway Handyman wrote:
I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to the
Box Extender thread, as does grumpyat@

Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.

It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.

WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?

ygm

On 2008-01-24 23:45:16 +0000, "Phil L" said:

The Medway Handyman wrote:
I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to the
Box Extender thread, as does grumpyat@

Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.

It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.

WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?

ygm

I don't think he is..... must be in his fifties if he's a day....

In article ,
The Medway Handyman wrote:
I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to the Box
Extender thread, as does grumpyat@

Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.

It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.

WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?

Not seeing it here so Pipex must have filtered it.

--
*Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Cod Roe wrote:
Phil L wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?

Someone is sporging - IE using yours and others' names to post
religous claptrap, they are in Edinburgh and are Virgin
customers...tha is, the machine is - it could be a zombie.
Ignore it - if it becomes a problem it will get reported and VM will
pull the plug.

Interestingly Eclipse Internet seem to be filtering it out of my news
feed, but I see it Google Groups, so it obviously already being caught
by some filtration system.


Odd, not seeing it on Plusnet's feed, but can't see it on google either:

http://groups.google.com/group/uk.d-... 34e3a343dc18



--
Cheers,

John.

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In message , writes
On 24 Jan,
"The Medway Handyman" wrote:

I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to the Box
Extender thread, as does grumpyat@

Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.

It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.

WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?


It's all over the place, an attack on usenet. All are posted to two groups or
more.

So an easy solution is to set your newsreader client to kill all
cross-posted articles.

--
Si

In message 47992730@qaanaaq, Andy Hall writes
On 2008-01-24 23:45:16 +0000, "Phil L" said:

The Medway Handyman wrote:
I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to the
Box Extender thread, as does grumpyat@
Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.
It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.
WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?
ygm

I don't think he is..... must be in his fifties if he's a day....

LoL!

ITHM YGM not YGM

--
Si

Si wrote:
In message , writes
On 24 Jan,
"The Medway Handyman" wrote:

I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to
the Box Extender thread, as does grumpyat@

Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.

It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.

WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?


It's all over the place, an attack on usenet. All are posted to two
groups or more.

So an easy solution is to set your newsreader client to kill all
cross-posted articles.

How would one do that with OE6 then?


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

In message , The
Medway Handyman writes
Si wrote:
In message , writes
On 24 Jan,
"The Medway Handyman" wrote:

I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to
the Box Extender thread, as does grumpyat@

Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.

It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.

WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?


It's all over the place, an attack on usenet. All are posted to two
groups or more.

So an easy solution is to set your newsreader client to kill all
cross-posted articles.

How would one do that with OE6 then?

The easy answer Dave is to switch to a 'real' news client ;-)

However, I'll do a search for you...

....

Sorry, can't find a reference to how you can do that in OE.

--
Si

On 25 Jan, 00:02, Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-01-24 23:45:16 +0000, "Phil L" said:

The Medway Handyman wrote:
I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to the
Box Extender thread, as does grumpyat@

Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.

It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.

WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?

ygm

I don't think he is..... must be in his fifties if he's a day....

OK - what's "ygm" then ?

In uk.d-i-y, robgraham wrote:
On 25 Jan, 00:02, Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-01-24 23:45:16 +0000, "Phil L" said:

The Medway Handyman wrote:
I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to the
Box Extender thread, as does grumpyat@

Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.

It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.

WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?

ygm

I don't think he is..... must be in his fifties if he's a day....

OK - what's "ygm" then ?

YGM Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology
YGM Yinggang Motorcycle Co. Ltd (China)
YGM You Got Me
YGM You've Got Mail
YGM Young Gay Male

typ!

--
Mike Barnes

In article ,
The Medway Handyman wrote:
So an easy solution is to set your newsreader client to kill all
cross-posted articles.

How would one do that with OE6 then?

It's a bit of a blunt instrument as not all crossposted threads are spam,
etc.

--
*How come you never hear about gruntled employees? *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On 2008-01-25 08:59:25 +0000, "The Medway Handyman"
said:

Si wrote:
In message , writes
On 24 Jan,
"The Medway Handyman" wrote:

I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to
the Box Extender thread, as does grumpyat@

Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.

It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.

WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?


It's all over the place, an attack on usenet. All are posted to two
groups or more.

So an easy solution is to set your newsreader client to kill all
cross-posted articles.

How would one do that with OE6 then?

Easy.

Don't use OE6. This is not a serious email or news client.

Try Thunderbird, which is free, or Agent which is better.

On 2008-01-25 05:57:49 +0000, Si $3o&m said:

In message 47992730@qaanaaq, Andy Hall writes
On 2008-01-24 23:45:16 +0000, "Phil L" said:

The Medway Handyman wrote:
I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to the
Box Extender thread, as does grumpyat@
Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.
It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.
WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?
ygm

I don't think he is..... must be in his fifties if he's a day....

LoL!

ITHM YGM not YGM

Ah. *THAT* YGM

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes
In article ,
The Medway Handyman wrote:
So an easy solution is to set your newsreader client to kill all
cross-posted articles.

How would one do that with OE6 then?

It's a bit of a blunt instrument

That's what Dave was asking for...

--
Si

On 25/01/2008 01:35, John Rumm wrote:

Odd, not seeing it on Plusnet's feed, but can't see it on google either:

I'm not seeing it on plusnet (well it's outsourced to supernews) either.

http://groups.google.com/group/uk.d-... 34e3a343dc18

Google seem to be doing some cleaning up, though one religious nut
posting has slipped through to the polystyrene thread.

http://groups.google.com/group/uk.d-...80dbcda46b16d6

On 25/01/2008 10:07, Andy Hall wrote:

Try Thunderbird, which is free,

Actually TB is pretty inflexible in its filtering rules (that said, I do
use it instead of my ancient version of Agent).

The Medway Handyman wrote:
I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to the Box
Extender thread, as does grumpyat@

Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.

It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.

WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?


A 'bot is attacking usenet.

Nothing to be done. Let the ISP's sort it.

Andy Burns wrote:
On 25/01/2008 10:07, Andy Hall wrote:

Try Thunderbird, which is free,

Actually TB is pretty inflexible in its filtering rules (that said, I do
use it instead of my ancient version of Agent).

You bet. All I can see as filter tags is subject, from and date. I'd
love to filter out anything xposted to demon.local, its denizens are
wrecking uk.local.surrey.

Andy

On 25/01/2008 22:46, Andy Champ wrote:

You bet. All I can see as filter tags is subject, from and date.

yes pity really

I'd
love to filter out anything xposted to demon.local, its denizens are
wrecking uk.local.surrey.

They leak into u.m.r.bbc-r4 too, not that there's much there to wreck.

Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-01-24 23:45:16 +0000, "Phil L"
said:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to the
Box Extender thread, as does grumpyat@

Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.

It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.

WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?

ygm

I don't think he is..... must be in his fifties if he's a day....

56 actualy - 50 is the new 30 though....


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

In article ,
Andy Champ wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
On 25/01/2008 10:07, Andy Hall wrote:

Try Thunderbird, which is free,

Actually TB is pretty inflexible in its filtering rules (that said, I
do use it instead of my ancient version of Agent).

You bet. All I can see as filter tags is subject, from and date. I'd
love to filter out anything xposted to demon.local, its denizens are
wrecking uk.local.surrey.

I don't know much about PCs, but on my system there are several free add
on filter progs. I'd be surprised if there weren't with Thunderbird.

--
*All men are idiots, and I married their King.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

The Medway Handyman wrote:
Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-01-24 23:45:16 +0000, "Phil L"
said:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to
the Box Extender thread, as does grumpyat@

Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.

It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.

WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?

ygm

I don't think he is..... must be in his fifties if he's a day....

56 actualy - 50 is the new 30 though....

I hope you didnt mind me saying what I needed to say, it's just that I've
seen some horrid ****e happen before, on more than one occasion.

In message , Andy Champ
writes
Andy Burns wrote:
On 25/01/2008 10:07, Andy Hall wrote:

Try Thunderbird, which is free,
Actually TB is pretty inflexible in its filtering rules (that said,
I do use it instead of my ancient version of Agent).

You bet. All I can see as filter tags is subject, from and date. I'd
love to filter out anything xposted to demon.local, its denizens are
wrecking uk.local.surrey.

Turnpike can do that & much more but for non-Demon users is not free.

www.turnpike.com (redirects to somewhere on www.demon.net but is easier
to remember)

--
Si

In message , The
Medway Handyman writes
Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-01-24 23:45:16 +0000, "Phil L"
said:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to the
Box Extender thread, as does grumpyat@

Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.

It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.

WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?

ygm

I don't think he is..... must be in his fifties if he's a day....

56 actualy - 50 is the new 30 though....

LoL.

I just passed my 50th b'day but was recently mistaken for someone who is
32. (I liked that though wish my insides felt 32!!!)

--
Si

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Andy Champ wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
On 25/01/2008 10:07, Andy Hall wrote:

Try Thunderbird, which is free,
Actually TB is pretty inflexible in its filtering rules (that said, I
do use it instead of my ancient version of Agent).

You bet. All I can see as filter tags is subject, from and date. I'd
love to filter out anything xposted to demon.local, its denizens are
wrecking uk.local.surrey.

I don't know much about PCs, but on my system there are several free add
on filter progs. I'd be surprised if there weren't with Thunderbird.

I happened to look at the Thunderbird support forum the other day - from
what I understood there is a series of problems. Until A is fixed they
can't fix B. Then C. Then they will be able to make the cross-post
filtering work (again?). Said wait for Thunderbird 3...

Not good news. I used to use (and prefer) xnews but had problems I
couldn't see how to solve. That had excellent cross-post filtering. It
does not seem to be actively maintained these days...

--
Rod

In uk.d-i-y, Si wrote:
In message , Andy Champ
writes
Andy Burns wrote:
On 25/01/2008 10:07, Andy Hall wrote:

Try Thunderbird, which is free,
Actually TB is pretty inflexible in its filtering rules (that said,
I do use it instead of my ancient version of Agent).

You bet. All I can see as filter tags is subject, from and date. I'd
love to filter out anything xposted to demon.local, its denizens are
wrecking uk.local.surrey.

Turnpike can do that & much more but for non-Demon users is not free.

www.turnpike.com (redirects to somewhere on www.demon.net but is
easier to remember)

Unfortunately the price for non-Demon users has just rocketed to
£199.99. No, I didn't type too many nines by mistake, that's two hundred
quid. I can't imagine many users shelling out that much, especially as
AFAIK there's no free trial version.

--
Mike Barnes

In message , Mike Barnes
writes
In uk.d-i-y, Si wrote:
In message , Andy Champ
writes
Andy Burns wrote:
On 25/01/2008 10:07, Andy Hall wrote:

Try Thunderbird, which is free,
Actually TB is pretty inflexible in its filtering rules (that said,
I do use it instead of my ancient version of Agent).

You bet. All I can see as filter tags is subject, from and date. I'd
love to filter out anything xposted to demon.local, its denizens are
wrecking uk.local.surrey.

Turnpike can do that & much more but for non-Demon users is not free.

www.turnpike.com (redirects to somewhere on www.demon.net but is
easier to remember)

Unfortunately the price for non-Demon users has just rocketed to
£199.99. No, I didn't type too many nines by mistake, that's two hundred
quid. I can't imagine many users shelling out that much, especially as
AFAIK there's no free trial version.


Sheeeesh! They really are trying to kill it off. (((

I'll resubscribe to dist to see what ppl are posting.

--
Si

Phil L wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-01-24 23:45:16 +0000, "Phil L"
said:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
I appear to have posted a load of religious ****e in response to
the Box Extender thread, as does grumpyat@

Andy Burns seems to have posted the same ****e in response to the
Polystyrene thread.

It wasn't me & obviously it wasn't grumpy or Andy.

WTF is going on - and how do I get to hit whoever is doing it?

ygm

I don't think he is..... must be in his fifties if he's a day....

56 actualy - 50 is the new 30 though....

I hope you didnt mind me saying what I needed to say, it's just that
I've seen some horrid ****e happen before, on more than one occasion.

Not at all Phil, I appreciete it.


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

In message , Si
$3o&m writes
In message , Mike Barnes
writes
In uk.d-i-y, Si wrote:

Turnpike can do that & much more but for non-Demon users is not free.

www.turnpike.com (redirects to somewhere on www.demon.net but is
easier to remember)

Unfortunately the price for non-Demon users has just rocketed to
£199.99. No, I didn't type too many nines by mistake, that's two hundred
quid. I can't imagine many users shelling out that much, especially as
AFAIK there's no free trial version.


Sheeeesh! They really are trying to kill it off. (((

I'll resubscribe to dist to see what ppl are posting.

Yep, it's GBP200 now... & I thought I was crazy. ;-)

Sad, sad, sad. Forget the recommendation folks. :-(

--
Si

Si says...
In message , Si
$3o&m writes
In message , Mike Barnes
writes
In uk.d-i-y, Si wrote:

Turnpike can do that & much more but for non-Demon users is not free.

www.turnpike.com (redirects to somewhere on www.demon.net but is
easier to remember)

Unfortunately the price for non-Demon users has just rocketed to
£199.99. No, I didn't type too many nines by mistake, that's two hundred
quid. I can't imagine many users shelling out that much, especially as
AFAIK there's no free trial version.


Sheeeesh! They really are trying to kill it off. (((

I'll resubscribe to dist to see what ppl are posting.

Yep, it's GBP200 now... & I thought I was crazy. ;-)

Sad, sad, sad. Forget the recommendation folks. :-(


MicroPlanet Gravity is a good newsreader. It's free with
lots of scope for setting rules and blocking cross posts.
--
David in Normandy

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Andy Champ
saying something like:

You bet. All I can see as filter tags is subject, from and date. I'd
love to filter out anything xposted to demon.local, its denizens are
wrecking uk.local.surrey.

Google for NewsProxy - it's got fully configurable filters you can set
up to pre-filter crap, including x-posts, headers, etc.
--

Dave