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supernews



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:19 am    Post subject: rec.boats.racing scheduled for sporge flood Reply with quote

Sporge flooding of rec.boats.racing will commence in a few hours.

This will render rec.boats.racing useless. For an example, see Sci.Crypt.

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They lead neatly if Saad's speculation isn't ready.

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Andy Champ



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:52 pm    Post subject: Re: rec.boats.racing scheduled for sporge flood Reply with quote

supernews@rec.boats.racing wrote:
> Sporge flooding of rec.boats.racing will commence in a few hours.
>

"'Sporge' is a made up word used to describe a forgery-flood intended to
disrupt a newsgroup."

One way to do this is to post messages to lots of other groups, with the
follow-up address set to the victim group. As you did.
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pe.rhodes



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:42 pm    Post subject: Re: rec.boats.racing scheduled for sporge flood Reply with quote

The free exchange of information seems to put fear into their little hearts.
Let the dance begin...

"Andy Champ" wrote in message @pipex.net...
> supernews@rec.boats.racing wrote:
>> Sporge flooding of rec.boats.racing will commence in a few hours.
>>
>
> "'Sporge' is a made up word used to describe a forgery-flood intended to
> disrupt a newsgroup."
>
> One way to do this is to post messages to lots of other groups, with the
> follow-up address set to the victim group. As you did.

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