From: Brian Palmer <bpalmer@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Request For Help
Date: 18 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT
Message-ID: <m3em98ionc.fsf@krikkit.stanford.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.tech-support.recovery
uther@yoshiwara.nospamtoday.demon.co.uk (Carl Inglis) writes:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm asking for help from the denizens of this newsfroup.
No, this is a bad idea. Newsgroup invasions are ugly things, and I'd
hate for this group to get dragged in (and its special status is not
likely to delay any invasion for long, as only one person needs to
know the magic)
> uk.religion.pagan has recently been invaded (the only word I can think of)
> by the biggest bunch of lame lusers I have ever had the misfortune to
> encounter. They seem to be connected to the "meowers" if that rings any
> bells with anyone. Their ISP's don't seem to be interested in cancelling
> their accounts, and, although we have a number of techie wizards, I was
> wondering if anyone would be willing to provide assistance in dealing with
> these trolls?
Do *not* feed the trolls. The meowers are far more powerful than the
usual trolls, in that they can be self-sustaining, but in the end, if
they're not fed, they'll go find someone else.
> If you want to see the sort of stuff they are posting, just grab the last
> days worth of posts to u.r.p. They seem to be forging headers and x-posting
> willy-nilly. A lot of our regulars are less than technical and run software
> which doesn't have killfile potential.
Then they need to upgrade their software ;) Someone's posted a link to
nfilter, but even if that doesn't work, people should be able to just
ignore their posts. If regulars keep getting trolled, try to convince
them by email not to respond. Discipline can help.
> I thought I would appeal to the good nature of you all, then realised that
> as bobs, a chance to attack and otherwise deal with lusers would probably
> have more chance of gaining us some help!
I've not a great deal of experience with the meowers (one mailing list
I'm on was an early target of hte meowers, and has thus moved lock,
stock, and barrel to a controlled format; I've also been on the other
side, where the meowers invaded a wrestling group that was trying to
take over alt.config). Like so much else in Usenet, they're a
double-edged sword.
--
"Give me a long enough lever and a place to stand, or I'll kill you!"
-- Copernicus
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