Re: Compromise of the nobody account?

In article <slrnfpqdgd.vm.ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) wrote:

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.unix, in article
<54209225-4fe7-4fe6-ba22-348a8b6658b0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, mike3
wrote:

NOTE: Posting from groups.google.com (or some web-forums) dramatically
reduces the chance of your post being seen. Find a real news server.

How's that? The only reason I use google is because it's free -- I
don't have to pay for it since I don't get a lot of money.

You get what you pay for. :)


http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/Public_News_Servers/

There is substantial spam flowing out of google, to the point that
people are simply killfiling (blocking) all posts from there.

Really? Never noticed it -- maybe Giganews is filtering the spam. I
thought the reason was that so many Google Groups users seem to be
clueless about how to post properly to Usenet (e.g. they're notorious
for multi-posting rather than cross-posting and not quoting in their
replies). This particular poster seems to be quite the exception.

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