Xref: utzoo talk.politics.mideast:14565 news.admin:6979 news.misc:3612 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!rutgers!att!chinet!arf From: arf@chinet.chi.il.us (Jack Schmidling) Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast,news.admin,news.misc,alt.conspiracy Subject: Who's Messing With The Usenet? Keywords: the ADL of course Message-ID: <9610@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 18 Sep 89 20:37:30 GMT Followup-To: talk.politics.mideast Organization: Chinet - Chicago, Ill. Lines: 54 awhy/e9 Article 3708 (11 more) in news.misc: From: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,alt.conspiracy Subject: Who's Messing With The Usenet ? Keywords: article, duplication, monkey business >I've been noticing a lot of duplicate articles recently...... >Now, I've been reading the Usenet, on and off, for about five or six years now, and I have _never_ seen anything like this in my life...... >I've been reading for, oh, over a month now, about how duplicate articles have been appearing across many newsgroups......I began to smell a rat. >The answer that occurs to me is, quite bluntly, sabotage. It is a well- -established trick, made exemplar by the actions of senior Usenet people, to generate forged headers, as I said before, and insert them into the queue. These articles, given their untraceable nature, are very possibly forged articles. >The sites found in the "Path:" field are, presumably, interconnected ... which argues for a fairly sophisticated and detailed effort, not the act of an average college student, whom would presumably still be so dazzled by the wealth of information available that s/he would never think of sabotaging it, incidentally. No, if such an act is being perpetuated, it is coming from an individual or group thereof with considerable attention to detail. >Why would someone do such a thing ? ARF says: This probably belongs on alt.conspiracies but since this is the first time I have even looked at this group, I was dazzled by the possible solution to a problem that has been bugging me since shortly after I joined usenet around June of this year. I am a born-again Anti-Zionist and post profusely to talk.politics.mideast with that point of view. My usenet site (chinet) loses on the average, about 50 articles every week. The way it happens is.... 32 Articles talk.politics.mideast read now? (y n)..."y"....sorry all read...bye My sysop says it's because he has run out of disc space. It also happens that there are many duplicate articles on this news group and they obviously fill up the disk and prevent new articles from being processed. Keeping $Billions flowing to Israel is not to be overlooked as a possible reason why "someone would do such a thing". The Amateur Radio Forum (arf)