Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 17:38:32 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uunet vs. internet Message-ID: <199708060038.RAA02887@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Aug 1997 15:50:55 PDT." <199708052250.PAA22871@kithrup.com>
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As one that is sitting here totally defenseless against the mindless e-mail spams , all I have to say go for it!! Yes , I have anti-spam filters and I think they are just not enough :( Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of Sean Eric Fagan : > In article <199708052014.NAA01887.kithrup.freebsd.chat@rah.star-gate.com> you write: > >Apparently, a group of sysads are cancelling all uunets postings 8) > >Rumor has it that Uunet will strike back by using legal action. > > And yours truly has been quoted in the local paper. And will probably be > quoted in at least another. (Spent the first hour this morning dealing with > reporter questions via email.) > > This is not a "group of sysads" -- rather, this is a group of the spam > cancellers. You know, the ones who actually try to make usenet still > readable? (The ones who stopped for nine days a few weeks ago and watched > as usenet became >50% spam in most newsgroups?) > > In this case, a UDP (Usenet Death Penalty) was issued for uunet dial-up > originated postings. THis is basicly just alterdial.uu.net. > > A statistic: last thursaday (July 31), for the first time, one site > measured more than one million usenet articles passing through it in a > single day. > > Of those one million, approx. 40% were spam, 40% were spam cancels, and 20% > were legit. traffic. > > Of the 400,000 spam articles, approx. 250,000 came from an alterdial.uu.net > account. > > People have been complaining to uunet about this for several months. uunet > claims it can do nothing. So, the UDP went into play, Friday at 5PM PDT. > > The press coverage has, so far, been favourable. Except for one very > badly-slanted article in the San Jose Mercury News, I'm sad to say. > > UUNET can try legal action; it will be amusing, since most of the people > actually doing the cancels are not in the US -- and one of them works for > the gov't of Korea, with official sanction. > > UUNET has claimed that they decided yesterday to implment some technology to > help deal with the deluge of spam coming from them. So the UDP may be > called off as early as this evening. We'll see. >
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