[faq-maintainers] Re: forged posts/Hipcrime attack/heads up

Nathan J. Mehl (memory@blank.org)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:02:25 -0400

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In the immortal words of Chris Lewis (clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca):
>
> HipCrime sendsys/supersedes bombing. See news.admin.net-abuse.usenet
> or news.admin.net-abuse.email for more detail. In a nutshell,
> Hipcrime, John Grubor and various other idiots are issuing messages that
> drop people's articles on the floor (supersede), and sendsys mailbombs
> you at the same time. FAQs aren't being targetted specifically - he's
> trying to wipe out whole groups.

Oh dear lord.

I am suddenly very, very glad that I've gone cold-turkey off Usenet.

Hope things aren't too horrific.

-n

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