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On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 23:15:24 -0500, afn23950@pop3.afn.org (Follower of
the Clawed Albino) said:

As a happy and content user of Altopia, I find myself thinking "This
chick is WHACKED". But, being the diplomat that I am, I then thought
"Maybe she's just misunderstood". Sometimes what a person, or FotCA,
says is open to interpretation, and therefore taken in the wrong way.
To try and help clear things up, I now offer this translation of
FotCAs rant...er, post.

>The posters from alt.net (who, I will note, were NOT alone in this) were
>attempting a flood.  I document this by the following:

Trans: Being the anal-retentive person that I am, I made notes of
everything that caused me to go over my daily allowance of 4 boxes of
laxatives. Of course, I only want to bitch about the posters from
Altopia, because that damn Chris Caputo won't bend to my every whim
and let me play net-cop/judge/jury/executioner, by betraying the
privacy of his users or letting someone who has no business of knowing
his action against those users. 

>1) Upwards of 25-30 messages/day, of which roughly 15-20 were from alt.
>   net, were posted to alt.horror.werewolves daily (excepting the binary
>   floods, where thousands of posts were sent through an open NNTP 
>   server).  Normal traffic on alt.horror.werewolves is 40-60 messages/
>   day *at most*.

Trans: I would like to whine and bitch about the minority of off-topic
posts to my little pet ng. Thank you for letting me vent my righteous
hostility.

>   Towards the end, posts were also affecting alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.
>   die which has upwards of 10 posts/day.

Trans: I would like to reiterate my ignorance of the difference
between net abuse and off-topic posts. Does anyone know what a
kill-file is, or how to work one? I think I need to know.

>2) As I have stated, this was in fact part of a *coordinated* attempt to
>   drive regulars off alt.horror.werewolves.  I honestly do suspect, based
>   on previous attacks, that if more open NNTP servers were available the
>   attack would be FAR more severe.  Furthermore, the stated intent of
>   the entities *was* that of a flood.

Trans: I have documented secret government evidence of a CONSPIRACY
against me and my werewolf-loving friends. I'm a VERRRY suspicious
person, and think that if there were open NNTP servers in 3
digits....what??!! there ARE?? Oh,....um, I guess I'm an idiot. But
you already knew that.

>3) I can state that, at least in the case of AHWW, the flood did in part
>   have its intended effect.  Several regulars have left directly because
>   of the flood, and Fluffy did offer to start a list because of the
>   flood.  The intent of the list was to replace alt.horror.werewolves 
>   because *it was being made unusable*.

Trans: Did you know that I'm not the ONLY cry-baby who doesn't know
how to use a kill-file in ahw? Well now you do.

>4) This is the latest in a series of attacks that have occured since 
>   November 1996, which have been targeted largely at myself.

Trans: I'm a VICTIM dammit! A VICTIM! And I blame Altopia! Punish
them! Punish them now!

>  In essence,
>   this is the latest episode of an ongoing DOS attack aimed at
>   alt.horror.werewolves.

Trans: I bet you think I'm loony for referring to this as a "Denial Of
Service" attack, don't you? Well you're WRONG! I would NEVER be that
loony to think a "flood" of 25-30 messages a day is a "Denial Of
Service"! I mean that there's MORE to this conspiracy than meets the
eye! I'm saying that BILL GATES is attacking me! It's a "Disk
Operating System" attack on my pet ng!! I want the names and addresses
and phone numbers and personal info and history of EVERY person at
Microsoft! This inhuman vandetta against me has GOT to end!

>  (This is one factor of many that has led to
>   me contacting law enforcement over this matter.

Trans: See? Chris Caputo isn't the ONLY one that ignores my constant
whining!

>  At this point, it
>   is crossing the line to harassment and a persistent DOS attack.

Trans: Waaaah!

> This is also a major factor on why I requested IP numbers.)

Trans: I'M the god-almighty-don't-fuck-with-me-do-as-I
say-I-don't-care-about-privacy-I'LL-fucking-play-net-vigilante-in-a-way-that-would-make-Charles
Bronson-fucking-CRINGE!

>5) As I also stated, there are issues that complicate things quite a bit
>   in this situation.

Trans: With the help of psychiatric professionals and a LOT of
medication, I'm becoming somewhat self-aware.

>  There is evidence that the attacks are meant as an
>   attempt at harassment aimed at myself and at other folks.

Trans: Ok, I'm being repetitive and redundant--but I have EVIDENCE! I
do! They're out to get me, but they WON'T! I'LL get THEM first!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

>  The persons
>   responsible for this have harassed family members of targets at times,
>   including my family (the listserv-bombing of my fiance and a revenge
>   spam targeted directly at Petrea Mitchell's father).

Trans: I would now like to make a lot of accusations, and offer little
in the way of evidence. Ok, maybe the listserv bombing didn't come
from Altopia, but it fucking pisses me off! Don't fuck with the only
man nutso enough to want to marry me!! I'm warning you!

>  There is also
>   other net.abuse going on by at least one of the parties involved.

Trans: Can I make more vague and silly accusations? I can? Ok, I will!

>6) What Caputo has not detailed--many of the posts were reposts of random
>   FAQs, reposts of articles from NANA*, reposts of articles from alt.
>   fan.karl-malden.nose, etc.  The "meowbot" reposted one article no less
>   than four separate times, and with each morph reposted ALL material he
>   had posted previously PLUS some new articles--all largely reposts of
>   articles from other newsgroups.  (There were other posts like this from
>   open NNTP servers abused by the perps in this run--one run being
>   reposts of *all* Dave Hayes' recent posts on NANA* from an NNTP server
>   at the Medical University of Lviv, etc.)  The last rounds in the attack
>   came from Altopia and an open server abused for a binary flood.

Trans: cross-posting, "flood", blah, blah, yada, yada...

>7) Over 100 articles (out of 280-odd) on alt.horror.werewolves were from
>   alt.net at the end of this round.  This is from alt.net *alone*; this
>   does *not* count other sites that were abused in the attacks.  (If 
>   these are counted, the total goes up to ~180 posts.  Some of the early
>   "Bischoff" posts and the binary-floods are missing in this total, as
>   are the initial round of the "meowbot" posts which were cancelled.
>   These were on Airnews' server, which holds posts for approximately 2
>   weeks, and during the period of ~25 October to 5 November (when the
>   flood ended, roughly).  If binary-flood posts and the initial
>   "Bischoff" posts, as well as the initial round of "meowbot" posts, are
>   counted, the total does go up higher.)  

Trans: See previous trans.

>   I had a similar percentage reported by an Altopia user who also has
>   noted that ~33% of posts on alt.horror.werewolves were posts from
>   Altopia (before the last binary flood).  


Trans: I LOVE being repetitive and redundant! And DAMMIT, a ng that
gets 40-60 messages a day, well, ~33% of THAT is a big-ass flood! IT
IS, IT IS, IT IS!!!! 

There now, I'm glad to have cleared that up. FotCA, since I'm
providing this as a "translation of the whacked" service, this can be
billed to your HMO. Unless, of course, you're over the limit--which I
think is a pretty good guess.
                                            Love,
                                                     Ch�p

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