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Re: Alt.Net user destroying newsgroup - 1607 messages in three days...

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From: David E. Powell
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 00:00
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Umm.. Snicker, you do know that this was posted to the abuse Newsgroups...



Dave


snicker@snicker.ha wrote in message ...
>sam-001@dpinc.ml.org wrote:
>
>> In article <757pdd$i647@www1.siast.sk.ca>,
>> "John DeJong" <netbastard@usa.net> writes:
>>
>> > On RSPW since Sunday, there have been 1607 messages posted through
alt.net
>> > from a bot named Owen.  At least 45 people have written to alt.net, and
>> > have received no response.  Alt.Net has a long-standing tradition of
not
>> > caring about net.abuse, preferring instead to unjustly cloak such
nonsense
>> > in the sacred garment of Freedom Of Speech, using this as an excuse to
let
>> > the enjoyment of thousands of Usenet readers be ruined for their unruly
>> > kids.
>>
>> Please contact your ISP and ask them to reconfigure their news servers to
>> drop all Usenet traffic from news.alt.net, just like many other ISPs who
>> have already done so.  The resulting improvement in the quality of your
>> newsfeed is quite dramatic.  If your ISP declines to do so, change your
>> account to an ISP that does.
>
>**** BEGIN SAM PARODY/IMITATION *****
>
>some_guy wrote
>
>>Sam didn't really write
>
>>>some_guy wrote:
>
>>>> Does anyone know the best filtration system for a 20 gallon tank? I
>>>> plan to keep about a dozen small tropical fish inside. Thanks in
>>>> advance.
>
>>>Well, I would suggest the AQUINATOR. Not only is it fairy inexpensive
>>>for the output, but it's kept my small collection alive for months
>>>depite previous problems. I suspect the noise frequency is resposible.
>>>I've always known Chris Caputo has been sneaking into my house at night
>>>and overfeeding the darn things, but this new filter seems to have
>>>discouraged him. I was surprised, as he is perhaps the most evil man
>>>alive, and tenacious in his spread of anarchy and pain, but the fish
>>>seem to be thriving now. Of course, he still attempts to harm me
>>>through Altopia, slowly and inevitably turning Usenet into what I like
>>>to call "Caputo's stinky sewer of bad things". I know the safety of my
>>>fish is making him crazy, and he still stalks about my house at night
>>>in frustration, but I still can't get any help from the cops. They
>>>insist there's absolutely no evidence of any wrongdoing, but I know
>>>they're in on it too, protecting him, giving him SHELTER. The bastards
>>>probably laugh at ME back at the old CLUBHOUSE. But I WILL WIN. JUST
>>>LIKE the fish, I'll have him. I'll get Altopia UDP'd any day now. You
>>>just WAIT. I've already submitted my proposal to STOP TRAFFIC from
>>>driving WITHIN A 1 MILE RADIUS OF THE ALTOPIA OFFICES. Soom it'll ALL
>>>BE OVER. I'll get HIM EVICTED, and PAY FOR THE DEMOLITION of the
>>>OFFICES MYSELF! Those FUCKS will PAY DEARLY FOR WHAT THEY'RE DOING TO
>>>ME. and as SOON AS ALTOPIA IS SHUT DOWN, you'll see the DIFFERENCE.
>>>IT'LL BE A BRAND NEW WORLD, DEVOID OF PAIN, DISEASE, DEATH. AND I'LL BE
>>>KING! DO YOU HEAR ME YOU SONS OF BITCHES?!?! I'LL BE A GODDAMN HERO!
>>>THEY'LL CARRY ME DOWN FSCKING WALL STREET!!!! PARADES!!!! MEDALS!!!!
>>>THAT GIRL WHO LAUGHED IN MY FACE SOPHMORE YEAR!!!! THEY'LL ALL PAY!
>>>UTOPIA!!! AND HE'LL NEVER GET AT MY GOD-DAMN-FUCKING FISH AGAIN!!!!!!!!
>
>>Uh...what? I don't understand. What did Altopia do to you?
>
>OH, SO YOU'RE IN ON IT TOO HUH? SCREW YOU! I DON'T HAVE TO GIVE YOU ANY
>GODDAMN PROOF!!!!!!! AND STAY AWAY FROM MY FISH YOU BASTARD!!!!!
>
>**** END SAM IMITATION/PARODY ****
>
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From: "David E. Powell" <David_Powell3006@email.msn.com>
Subject: Re: Alt.Net user destroying newsgroup - 1607 messages in three days...
Date: 1998/12/16
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