Re: ascii-art

Veronica Karlsson <dre...@on.spammer> wrote:
>Skippy wrote:
>
>> Attention: Inhabitants of alt.ascii-art

>> The collection of witless retards that inhabit this rather dull
  newsgroup, have been targeted by the alt.life.sucks crew.
  We fully intend to flame you for our amusement over the coming few
  weeks, and, as our group name suggests, are going to make your pitiful
  lives suck even more than they do at this moment in time.
>>
>> We expect you unsophisticated serfs to engage us in a bandwidth
  destroying flame war. Being the generous people we are, we'll allow
  you worthless cretins to pick the subject.
>>
  Failure to comply with our instructions will result in this group
  being the subject of a very large recursive cascade.

>> You have been warned.

>> -
>> Skippy the Bush Kangaroo


> I hope I didn't cause this by accidentally answer to a post later in
> a thread started by the same message in alt.animals.felines. I don't
> know what this guy is up to, but apparently it's nothing good... My
> suggestion is - ignore him! (I intend to, after this post)  :(


It may be a troll but it could in fact be a proposed newsgroup
destruction attack which get launched from certain alt.* newsgroups.

If that happens the best defence is for all readers here would be:

 - to strictly avoid responding to such postings;

 - keep copies of full messages and the full messags headers and
   forward them to abu...@isp.wherever-applies;

 - alert the "news.admin.net-abuse.sightings" newsgroup (setting
   followups to "news.admin.net-abuse.usenet") with example
   messages/headers and ask their advice...then follow it.

 - email your own ISP with a sample message and full headers and
   ask for their help and advice.


There are other some things the alt.ascii-art readership can do if
something nasty actually develops here. Meanwhile use anti-troll
measures...mainly...strictly ignore and do not be tempted to respond!


The Net-Abuse newsgroups for your reference are:

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