🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 8 May 2000 21:09:31 +0100, Neil Swann <neil.swann@dtn.ntl.com>
wrote:

>A ng my wife subscribes to has been inundated with messages containing
>nothing but groups of letters which make no sense. This has been going
>on for some time and some subscribers have reported 1,000's of posts of
>a similar type. Although not all get through some ISP's seem to fare
>better than others. I understand these messages are computer generated
>and lots of them used forged ID purporting to come from regular posters 
>on the group. With this in mind is it possible to set rules to kill this
>prat, obviously the "from" is not an option and he intersperses these
>posts within different threads. I understand that he was a regular
>poster with an attitude and when flamed replied in this vein. He's been
>kicked from previous ISP's but keeps moving. My wife has tried to ignore
>this and made other arrangements however I now find I am in receipt of 7
>e-mails addressed to postmaster@dtn.ntl.com from Turnpike_NNTP_Client@dt
>n.ntl.com full of this crap with different message senders. I e-mailed
>the relevant abuse@ but wondered if anyone has any advice on how best to
>prevent being inundated with this crap. 

  This is a common and hard-to-deal-with problem.  I can offer two
suggestions:

1)  Send details of the posts (i.e. headers and suchlike) to 'abuse'
at *your* ISP.  (NTL by some chance?  :-)   )  If they a) can be
bothered, and b) are reasonably competent then the current account the
guy is using will be killed.  He will of course go on to another
account.

2)  Wait.  All these idiots, without exception so far, get bored
eventualy.  The best way to hasten this is to totaly ignore him.

   Regards,
             Harry.