What is this SPORGE Flood?

What is this SPORGE flood and who is causing it? What can be done to make it
stop so that this newsgroup will return to normal?

spambot from someone who hates this group. simple.

Think you this is a revelation from Oil Share Traders?





Jim Dubya wrote:

What is this SPORGE flood and who is causing it? What can be done to make it
stop so that this newsgroup will return to normal?

On Aug 13, 9:51 am, "Jim Dubya" wrote:
What is this SPORGE flood and who is causing it? What can be done to make it
stop so that this newsgroup will return to normal?

Wikipedia has an informative article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporge

Cheers,
Larry G.

On 2007-08-13, Jim Dubya wrote:
What is this SPORGE flood and who is causing it? What can be done to make it
stop so that this newsgroup will return to normal?

Basically, nothing. Unmoderated groups are vulnerable to this kind
of thing. I mentioned creating a sci.astro.amateur.moderated a
while back that would be less suseptible to this kind of thing but
the general consensus seems to be against that.

--
Andrew Smallshaw

KLM wrote:

spambot from someone who hates this group. simple.

Think you this is a revelation from Oil Share Traders?

Interesing note - 5 days ago someone posted the following to sci.space
(and similar messages in several other group - but not s.a.a.)
I never noted any flooding of sci.space...

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Path:
newsb.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newspeer2.se .telia.net!newspeer3.s
e.telia.net!se.telia.net!novso.com!newsfeed.freene t.de!club-internet.fr!
feedme-small.clubint.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxa
d.net!64.209.5.17.MISMATCH!spln!extra.newsguy.com! newsp.newsguy.com!enew
s2
From: e
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: sci.space scheduled for sporge flood
Followup-To: sci.crypt
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 03:20:53 GMT
Organization: generally, Catherine never embraces until Calvin dissolves
the administrative fork openly
Lines: 11
Approved: e
Message-ID:
NNTP-Posting-Host:
p20f807bfff0000005169b11e6180e2c0c09d958e95efa8b0f 59d8bc8fda68832.newsda
wg.com
Xref: masternews.telia.net. sci.space:5582

Sporge flooding of sci.space will commence in a few hours.

This will render sci.space useless. For an example, see Sci.Crypt.

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Jim Dubya wrote:

What is this SPORGE flood and who is causing it? What can be done to make it
stop so that this newsgroup will return to normal?


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