"Janes" <djanes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:z8bgj.53147$Rf5.6055@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "Von" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:Xns9A1CAEC0AAD29lartssbcglobalnet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Janes"
> <djanes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:PVBfj.27828$yV5.20409@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >
> > The real solution would of course be electroconvulsive therapy.
> >
> >
> > I disagree: 5 years solitary without access to a computer, FOLLOWED
> BY
> > ANOTHER FIVE YEARS OF OPRAH RERUNS. AND STILL NO ACCESS TO A
> COMPUTER.
> > Take his freakin' puter away from him.... and his useless freedom.
> He
> > can't handle it anyway! Doesn't know what to do with it, abuses it,
> > mocks it... like the NAZIs who mocked democracy and those who
> > practiced it as weaklings, saps, degenerates. **** this asshole,
> drop
> > him in a hole. And, if you can find out ANYTHING from his header,
> > track him, re****t him, dog him, spam him back, harrass him, haunt
> him,
> > crap on him any way you can. Likely it's faked, though, so before
> you
> > jump in his ****, send a friendly email to see if you get a
> > friendly reply. Or use WHOIS to track his URL/IP address and notify
> > his
> service
> > provider that he's a low life, s*** sucking pig.
> >
> > But, after using USENET for years, in an unmoderated NG, I'd have
> > to say that I'm most disturbed by the fact that USENET is so
> > USELESS. Someone from there will jump in YOUR **** if you dare post
> > a dumbass binary file on this group, no matter how useful and
> > appropriate it
> is,
> > but they couldn't care less that tons of bandwidth is being taken
> > up with this kind of totally inappropriate, uselss, disruptive,
> > non-NG, spammed material. USENET should be stopping this **** and
> > they have the technical resources to do it. Call them and complain.
> >
> > My 5¢
> >
> > David Janes
>
>
> David,
>
> You need to get a decent news provider,
>
> This is probably, actually, a very good idea. My news provider is
> whatever Cox.net signed up for and is some off-brand **** that barely
> works for normal stuff. However, I still say that, if your news
> service can filter the most OBVIOUS spam, so could the dumbass,
> useless USENET ****s that rule their quaint little world while taking
> absolutely no responsibility for what goes over it except to stupidly,
> meaninglessly distinguish between binary and ASCII newsgroups. And, if
> they were truely and really concerned about the sacred 'bandwidth',
> they'd immediately get rid of ALT.anything.... They obviously aren't
> seriously worried about bandwidth; and the distinction and hullaballoo
> about binary posts on ASCII newsgroups is a hoax, a sham, a scam, a
> retreat to some mindless USENET dogmatism while they play CYA over the
> lack of any real solution.
>
> David Janes
David,
Usenet is just a collection of protocals. No one group of people have
control of how usenet is used. I suppose there could be a complete
overhaul of the usenet protocals, but with as few people actually using
usenet (compared to all of those that use the internet in general) I
wouldn't hold my breath The beauty and the bane of usenet is that it is
wide open, anybody can post and unfortunately or fortunately depending on
your point of view it can be almost totally anonymous. This brings out
the wackos, spammers, and news bombers. Wackos and spammers, can be
mostly taken care of with local filtering if you have a decent news
reader like xnews or agent. Currently the only protection from the
recent flood of nonsense messages is conscioncous administration of the
news servers. Most of the big providers like Cox or Time Warner don't
care about usenet because so few of there customers actually use it, if
most did then the complaints would be so load that they would have to do
something. That means you have to get your news from someplace that
actually gives a damn, like giganews, aioe, supernews and others.
You don't have to use what cox handed out to you, there are alternatives
that are just as cheap (free) and run much better. The only thing that
Cox provides that you may not be able to get elsewhere is the pipe to the
internet.
There is no central authority that you can go to to fix this unless they
completely redesign the internet protocals. I am not sure that you would
like the results of that any better than what we have now.
HTH
Von
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