Message-ID: <33F0CFC3.2FA5@cam.org> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 17:04:03 -0400 From: Vic MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: [Fwd: Fwd: UDP Imposed On UUNet] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------26AE64632EE1" Precedence: bulk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------26AE64632EE1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- --> http://www.cam.org/~tudor <-- Go ahead and build another Messiah We dig another grave... --------------26AE64632EE1 Content-Type: message/news Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Path: altitude!rcogate.rco.qc.ca!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!news-was.dfn.de!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!204.71.16.13!newsfeed.sover.net!not-for-mail From: Derek Newsgroups: alt.games.descent Subject: Fwd: UDP Imposed On UUNet Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 09:06:49 -0400 Organization: http://www.sover.net/~restey/ Message-ID: <33F05FE9 DOT E70748BB AT sover DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: usr0a17.burl.sover.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) This is big, really big. Finally someone's taking action. -- +--------------------------------------+ |Derek | |http://www.sover.net/~restey/ | +--------------------------------------+ **Spam is cencorship** ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ATTENTION: To all users who are sick of the spam trap that usenet has become: The time has come. Your distaste for the state of usenet is shared by many, including sysadmins and site administrators. You are tired of the vast wasteland of spam, and they are tired wasting their time passing along this trash and pretending this is what the net is for. Today, one of the usenet administrators involved in the present activity processed 1 million usenet messages on his system for the first time. 40% of that was spam. So much spam is being sent that many of the heavily targeted newsgroups have no regular users anymore -- they are all spam. In the past week, 1.2 million spams were passed through usenet. In that time period, almost half of the spam produced was sent through UUNet dialups such as Alterdial. In the last month they have produced 1/3 to 1/2 of all spam as counted daily. At 20:00 Eastern time several concerned admins and other user began the war to take back the net. At that time, a complete Usenet Death Penalty was imposed on all traffic from UUNet. Every message sent from this system will be canceled. This cannot work for long. Cancels also take up bandwidth. Spam is already so bad that the net is slowed down due to loss of bandwidth. Between the two, the problem will get worse until something happens to make it better. If you want to help preserve usenet, here are some specific suggestions: 1. Complain to your ISP. You are paying for internet, not advertinet. They CAN provide you with a clean, spam-free feed. They can: (a) process cancel messages, eliminating the incoming spam, and/or (b) install spam filters such as Zippo's Spam Hippo to eliminate this problem. Still, that just makes it readable, and doesn't help prevent its collapse due to the weight of spam. So, you can also: 2. Complain to the senders' ISP's. For every message from alterdial.net and ms.uu.net, you can send a copy of it with you complaint to abuse AT uu DOT net. So far these have been ignored. If they got just 1% of the complaints from every user, for every spam before their mailbox collapsed, they'd have hundreds of thousands of messages telling them to do something NOW. 3. Read the newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.usenet. This is where the people who attempt to keep the net operating discuss the problems and solutions. 4. Educate yourself on what you can do to combat spam but reading the FAQ's posted in news.admin.net-abuse.usenet, and by following the links in those FAQ's, as well as using http://www.sputum.com as a starting point to other anti-spam sites. 5. DO NOT STOP. The time has come and passed that we can wait for someone else to solve this problem. It is up to those of us who wish to have a usenet to enjoy to take it back. If not now, then NEVER. It is that serious. And we are that serious. PLEASE join us and TAKE BACK THE NET. Here's a copy of what was just sent to: Wired The Site @ MSNBC Washington Post Associated Press Wall Street Journal US News & World Report CNN NPR === Effective immediately there is a Usenet Death Penalty (UDP) imposed on UUNet originated traffic to usenet. All traffic coming from these sources is to be canceled until further notice. Only traffic originating from UUnet (including Alterdial) is being targeted for cancellation. Sites that simply feed through UUnet will not have their traffic cancelled. However, at least one site has already chosen to shun UUnet completely, and other sites may choose to follow suit. Any site that shuns UUnet will not receive posts from UUnet downstream sites either. If the situation is not resolved quickly, it will be advisable for any site currently exchanging news with UUnet to find alternative outgoing feeds. There are very few usenet newsgroups that aren't complaining about the accelerating rate at which spam is filling their groups. Those groups not complaining are already nothing but spam. Their users have abandoned them as unusable. In order to counter this situation, several concerned system administrators and users have been attempting to stem the flood by issuing cancel messages. This has met with some success. However the problem is becoming so bad that even the volume of cancels has become a concern. More success has been had by working with the ISP's from which much of this spam issues. Some are dedicated spam factories and will not respond. Some are responsible ISP's who've found themselves with a problem, and generally they have acted to stop it. Some more quickly than others, but until now all have made an effort and shown improvement. In the last few weeks, the number of spams canceled has exceeded 1 million per week. Consistently, one third to one half of this has come from UUNet. News users and site administrators throughout the world have besieged UUNet with complaints, but to date these complaints have been not been addressed in any way. While other ISP's have put forth efforts to provide to their users and users all over the net with a relatively clean and spam free feed, UUNet persists in non-action. Spammers are now flocking to UUNet because they know complaints are ignored. If the complaints from all across the net are ignored, then it's only fair that UUNet be ignored all across the net. All traffic originating from UUNet will be canceled until they show a substantial improvement in reducing the amount of spam from their system. This action is being taken by several people simultaneously. Their purpose is only to reduce the enormous drain on the bandwidth of the net caused by spam. If there were a significant proportion of legitimate traffic coming from these sites, this action would not likely have occurred. This decision was not reached lightly. These people are well aware of the serious nature of this undertaking. They have absolutely no intention of gaining anything from this other than to preserve usenet from the weight of the spam which not only annoys and drives off users, but literally threatens to ruin the net. Already some systems have suffered breakdowns due to this spam traffic. Others are planning to leave usenet and start a closed network which will not allow spam. In order to preserve the integrity of the net, and for no other purpose, this UDP is hereby imposed on UUNet effective immediately. Further information concerning this decision, and reports of spams counted and cancels issued, can be found on news.admin.net-abuse.usenet. Also available there are references to the FAQs and other documents used by the people who operate the systems that comprise usenet to maintain its operation. === Fellow users, you have seen other well meaning but doomed efforts to stop spam. Please do not allow this movement to end that same way. It is literally now or never. RISE UP. Let your voice be heard. You deserve it. It is your money which allows your ISP to keep their connection to the net They are doing this for YOU. MAKE your voice be heard. there is NO MORE TIME. Now or never. Fight back, or kiss this all goodbye and settle for paying $20 per month to read MAKE MONEY FAST and multilevel marketing scams and porno web sites. It's OUR net. DO NOT let it be taken away. FIGHT BACK NOW. TAKE BACK THE NET. Unit IV: SubGenius Police, Usenet Tactical Units, Mobile SubGenius Tactical Online Message Poster (STOMP) Squadron S. P. (U. T. U.) M. Communications, PR and Point Scout "Give me a fast modem, for I intend to go in harm's way." --------------26AE64632EE1--