Re Re mice

[Paul Mc Cann]

WTF is all this about.

How have these b******s managed to hi-jack the email addresses ?

[Huge]

Because Usenet headers are (more-or-less) completely unverified.

As you can see from the "X-wonky-header" I have inserted above.

Given suitable software, you can make the headers say whatever you like.

[Tony Williams]

They seem to being splurged all over Usenet. Notice the Approved: lines in the headers, which (I think) is the line that enables them to infest even some of the moderated newsgroups.

They think it is funny.

When I first came onto Usenet (in early 1997) the number of pig-ignorant arsewipes that there are around the world came as quite a surprise.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Easy. Just send an NNTP send with the faked e-mail address.

Look at the path headers though. I thnk teh one from 'me' came via toscali, whereas I am - for a few days more anyway - on demon.

[Huge]

What is a suprise is that the number seems to be increasing.

Like the man said; "Usenet has gone from being mostly full of people who were often obnoxious but usually smart to being mostly full of people who are often obnoxious and usually dumb."

[Ian Stirling]

Usenet really went down several years before 1997 IMO. September 93 (when AOL users got a newsfeed) was really bad.

Then in 94, Cantor and Seagull started spamming.