Re: PROPOSAL: alt.comp.retro-computing

OldbieOne <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Sat, 11 Mar 2023 03:47:55 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman" <[email protected]>:
>>OldbieOne <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 23:05:16 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman" <[email protected]>:
>>>>OldbieOne <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 21:57:21 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman" <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>OldbieOne <[email protected]> wrote:

>>>>>>>I didn't realize I was in the presence of such greatness! :O

>>>>>>>https://groups.google.com/g/aus.hi-fi/c/ed7QqoXSLr8

>>>>>>You never were a serious proponent. I'm not explaining the history of

>>>>>I was, but my post was half-assed because I thought nobody even bothered.

>>>>That wasn't my post, but you knew that. There were hundreds of
>>>>thousands, if not millions, of those sent in a massive Denial of Service
>>>>attack by a Hipclone.

>>>I did not say that it was your post.

>>So you knew who I was, which you lied about, and you knew of the
>>circumstances in which that article and others like it were part
>>of a massive Denial of Service attack.

>I did not know the circumstances in which those posts were made, until you
>divulged that here, in this group, in response to me.

Divulged?

You claimed you had something to do with customer service at an ISP
offering a News server around that time. Everybody on Usenet knew about
the incident, which took place starting at the end of 2001 and well into
2002. It was the largest Hipclone Denial of Service attack on Usenet
mostly through open proxies among Bell Canada Internet subscribers.

Everybody saw the articles as they were posted to every newsgroup
probably in the millions.

It wasn't the first such attack and it wasn't the last, but it was by
far the largest.

The real Hipcrime was the one who went after tale with Denial of Service
attacks with newgroup messages. This led to signed control messages. Tim
Skirvin attempted to appease him by starting the free.* hierarchy as
Hipcrime thought alt.* had rules on starting newsgroups, but Hipcrime
was objecting to the "trusted rmgroupers". Rmgroup messages weren't
allowed in free.* or certain spam countermeasures.

If you claim that you were unaware of the circumstances of this massive
Hipclone Denial-of-Service attack and you don't know who any of these
people were, you utterly lack credibility.

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