Re: Note - ISP Screwed Up - Can WRITE But Not SEE

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On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

>> methods today to get your hands on binaries than trawling through 
>> newsgroups downloading and integrating small compressed files.
>> 
>
> Most servers have dropped the binaries, but that doesn't stop someone 
> ouplading a load of crap to a text NG

If that is the case, then either people don't bother, or most, if not all,
usenet hosts block it very effectively. I have never seen anyone upload binaries
in any of the groups I follow.

>>> It does take a bit of looking after. If you let everyone access it before 
>>> you know it there is a huge amount of illegal shit being transferred on 
>>> legitimate newsgroups, ratware is smashing against every door it can find 
>>> and people are trying to DOS it just because someone called them out for 
>>> being a doofus.
>> 
>> It is very interesting! How long before someone would try and destroy your 
>> publicly available free news server? ;)
>> 
> These days a month or two.
>
> I play and online MPORPG - apperenly someone who got thrown off it for 
> breaking the rules flooded it with gigabits per second to trash it.
> I mean its only a game FFS!

This is very sad. I bet if they met many beautiful women, they would stop
wasting time on trying to take down gaming servers. ;)

>> On the other hand, one could always hope that the nr of people who even 
>> know what it is is so small that it could live happily unmoderated!
>> 
> There is ratware out there that probes all well known ports on any IP address 
> there is and publishes what they find.
> My two online servers are bombarded with ssh requests to log as root or any 
> other name.

I don't accept password login attempts on my ssh, and I moved the default port.
It takes care of most of the scripts.

> The SMTP port is also  subject to random attempts to authenticate as is the 
> POP3 port.
>
> In ten + years they never have cracked it.
>
>> On the other hand, if spam increases too much or the complaints keep piling 
>> up, maybe the peers will drop you?
>> 
> I doubt it. 70% of usenet is spam or eejits anyway.
>
>>> But technically its not hard to do for a small community of users
>> 
>> A hobby project for you? =)
>
> Got too many already. I'll let eternal September take the strain :-)

Sounds reasonable!

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