Sthitaprajna saw fit to inform LI that:
>>2. Satyam users CANNOT access usenet at all, as they have implemented
>>router blocks, but have not yet deployed their own NNTP server.
>Is it?? I use a public domain server in FAAAR off Austra"iy"lia
>::news.cairns.net.au:: and there seem to be no problems accesing the Usenet
They appear to have removed the router blocks ....
--- part of a mail dated Dec 28 '99 from satyam (snipped heavily) ---
> From: Abuse Investigation Team
> In response to the UDP (Usenet Death Penalty) complaints we received, we
> had blocked nntp access to the outside world from our network (SILNET:
> 202.144.0/0/17) on all our eggress routers. We will maintain this block
> till such time we are able to bring up an authenticated nntp proxy
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>And what do we call this chap who trashed the rtfm.mit.edu server::certainly
>not a "hacker"
He's a notorious usenet spammer (operating these days mainly from Delhi
and Chandigarh dialups [1]). His software "News Agent" performs these
(and assorted other nastiness) -
1. Mailbombs
2. Sendsys bombs
3. Forged cmsg cancels
4. Sporgeries (spam forgeries - with junk chars arranged like poetry)
For more, try searching news.admin.net-abuse.usenet and
news.admin.net-abuse.email for "Hipcrime". You'll get a few thousand
posts (dating back over three years).
[1] Currently Mantra Online, whose admins are working with several usenet
security people to track him down (see http://www.sputum.com for more).
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