Re: PROPOSAL: alt.comp.retro-computing

On Sat, 11 Mar 2023 05:30:54 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman" <[email protected]> did
make me awaken from my chaotic existentialism when they didst announce:

>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.
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>>>>>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.

And still the largest to this day. Yes, yes, I know. I just didn't look at when
it was posted.

Sorry I inadvertently triggered you, my dude....


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