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Started by Jonathan I. Kamens
Tue, 05 Jan 1993 17:06
Babak Sehari postings -- iastate.edu is dealing
Author: Jonathan I. Kamens
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 17:06
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 17:06
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The poster flooding the net with copies of the same message in every newsgroup is being dealt with. When I started seeing the messages, I sent mail to the News administrator at his site asking for something to be done about it, and I just got back this mail message (which I consider OK to post since it's a form letter that was sent out to anyone who wrote to the news administrator of the site about the problem): ----- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 10:33:06 -0600 From: skunz@news.iastate.edu (Steven L. Kunz) To: jik@pit-manager.mit.edu Subject: Babak Sehari postings Network News User: Regarding the "junk mail" type of postings that have originated from news.iastate.edu from a user named "Babak Sehari" ... Mr. Sehari has apparently automated his posting process and is posting his article to a large selection of newsgroups (including ALL local and regional ones) from a variety of systems on our campus. This matter has been turned over to the ISU Computation Center administrator in charge of handling perceived abuse of computer or network facilities at Iowa State University. Please forgive the "form letter" format of this reply. I have received many email complaints as Usenet News admin on this matter (as has our local "postmaster" for this site). --- Steven L. Kunz Networked Applications | Usenet News Admin. Iowa State University Computation Center, Iowa State University, Ames IA INET: skunz@iastate.edu BITNET: gr.slk@isumvs.bitnet ----- -- Jonathan Kamens jik@MIT.Edu Aktis, Inc. Moderator, news.answers
Re: Babak Sehari postings -- iastate.edu is dealing
Author: Steven L Kunz
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 21:48
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 21:48
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In <1icf6mINN8r7@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes: >The poster flooding the net with copies of the same message in every newsgroup >is being dealt with. When I started seeing the messages, I sent mail to the >News administrator at his site asking for something to be done about it, and I >just got back this mail message (which I consider OK to post since it's a form >letter that was sent out to anyone who wrote to the news administrator of the >site about the problem): >----- > [form letter email reply about this topic from skunz@iastate.edu] I really should have posted the email-reply I was sending out here (in newsgroups news.admin.misc and news.admin.policy) to start with - sorry. I promise you all it IS being handled. He started an automatic posting process for what was probably every newsgroup on the net. He started it from multiple machines and let it run. The "postmaster" here had at least 50 email messages off the net regarding this, I (as news admin) had at least that many (and they are still coming in). What a waste of a lot of people's time a resources ... Of course Mr. Babak Sehari had a "few" items in his mail-box, too. Since I was Cc'd to many mailings I KNOW he got a lot of "innovative ideas" on what to do with his posts. -- Steven L. Kunz Networked Applications | Usenet News Admin. Iowa State University Computation Center, Iowa State University, Ames IA INET: skunz@iastate.edu BITNET: gr.slk@isumvs.bitnet
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