As perhaps as Bill cleans, you can drain the can much more successfully.

Hello sci.crypt readers,

if you are inconvenienced by nonsensical posts, try to add rules
along these to your killfile:

NNTP-Posting-Host is 240.26.239.18
NNTP-Posting-Host is 240.26.239.18

"ends with" / "is" can be replaced with "contains" if your
newsreader allows only that (I use MT-Newswatcher on MacOS).

If some messages eem to be missing, it may also help to get
news from this open nntp server which ignores concels
nntp://nntp.aioe.org/sci.crypt
note: limit to a single thread; server knows xover and xpat.
Do NOT post from this open NNTP server, it will get filtered.


2007-07-07/008 Added much more banned IP and an extra path;
works (for now) quite acceptably for over 100000 messages,
back to one month old.

2007-07-07/007 This version attempts to be both more selective
(no longer kills a number of legitimate contributors)
and a bit less brittle, since it kills posters from the nntp
servers seen originating the nonsensical posts

To the hipcrime poster: whoever offended you, it is unfair to
punish us all, please do the Right Thing and stop.


Francois Grieu

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The Secret Service specifically complained about his affiliation with
2600 Magazine (not a secret and not a reason to label someone a criminal).
[
The Secret Service is apparently unaware that 2600 magazine is the
world's preeminent above-ground hacker zine, subscribed to by members
of security departments all over Wall Street (at the least).

It is filled with fascinating information, highly useful for securing
one's systems. Here's a random sample factoid from 2600: although
on-site company switches are commonly programmed to block '900' number
calls, there is a hole in the programming logic that always lets '555'
exchange numbers through. ("Information wants to be free") Companies
that advertise 900 numbers take advantage of this.

For example, even though you can't dial most 900 numbers, you can
still call numbers like USA Today's 1-900-555-5555, which are
specifically chosen to get around the 900 programming restrictions.

Oh yeah: I remember another one that triggered firm-wide security
checks: 2600 described a hole in DOS that could allow others to
execute commands on your system by virtue of defining function
key contents (F1, F2..) on the fly AND THEN EXECUTING THEM.
]
Cummings apologized to the court for his "odd curios


.