🚀 go-pugleaf

On 22/01/2010 23:35, John Eddy wrote:
> Uh, no. I was laid off because it was decided that my job would be
> outsourced. I had never received a complaint from any manager
> regarding my treatment of you.
>
> And, frankly, if you think I based all my decisions on MVPs, you don't
> know me.
>
> So, who in my management chain did you speak to, hmm?
>
> What tracks do you even think I needed to cover?
>
> I'm willing to post using MY real name, maybe you should do the same.
>    


Hello John,

I raised this matter in 'alt.computer.security' newsgroup - here's a 
copy of the thread:-

*************
> "Mike Easter" wrote: to
> | David H. Lipman

>>> Filters on the MS New Server do NOT like the alt.*
>>> hierarchy.
>>> Thus the news group...  alt.windows7.general
>>> Was most likely the trigger that casued the post to be blocked from 
>>> being posted.
>
> | Such a filter would be really weird and inappropriate and tending 
> toward
> | reckless behavior.
>
> | Are you suggesting that you think that the msnews filter would filter
> | your post and this one of mine?
>
>
> Well if it was x-posted from Usenet at large to the MS News Server, yes.

Let's be clear that we are talking about such a string occurring in the 
body, not cross-posted with alt groups in the Newsgroups line.

> For example a post made from usenet at large via...
> alt.comp.virus,alt.comp.anti-virus,microsoft.public.security.virus
>
> Would NOT be found on the MS News Server in the  
> microsoft.public.security.virus  group.

Those lines are saying crossposted;  not about the body only.

> Likewise I have posted to the MS News Server and have suggested the 
> use of  alt.comp.virus &  alt.comp.anti-virus  and the posts get blocked.

Those lines appear to be saying in the body only.

> However if I obfuscate it as;  alt. comp.virus &  alt. 
> comp.anti-virus  the post will go through and not be blocked.

Obfuscated body string works.

> I don't know all the 'rules' applied but there is indeed much rules 
> based filtering on the Microsoft News server.

My limited observation shows it to appear to have been a poorly admin/ed 
  newsserver in the past - notwithstanding whether or not some of your 
friends may have been involved with its admin.

Trying to auto-moderate a news server which is feeding and being fed by 
news servers worldwide is a whacky idea.

The perils of trying to have a news server integrated with a web system 
are also well established and practically impossible to solve smoothly.

-
Mike Easter

**********************


I'd be most interested to hear what you might have to say in regard to 
Mikes final paragraph

-- 
Dave (Sometimes man stumbles over the truth ...... Sir Winston Churchill)