In article ,
"Gary (Torquay)" writes:
Is it me or did we just receive a HELL of a lot of spam!????

Not spam. but something far worse even than that, namely an attempt to
make the group unusable by flooding it with gibberish. I've sent a
report to , with one of the articles - including full
headers - attached.
--
John Hall

"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

In article ,
Alex Stephens Jr writes:
Way too much for my liking Gaz.
I hope this isn't a sign of things to come on the NIN, now that we have to
pay for it?
Or have all servers been hammered

The articles will have been posted through one server, from where they
will have been distributed to all news servers on the Net. It's not
specifically a NIN thing.
--
John Hall

"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

In article ,
Alex Stephens Jr writes:
Way too much for my liking Gaz.
I hope this isn't a sign of things to come on the NIN, now that we have to
pay for it?
Or have all servers been hammered

The articles will have been posted through one server, from where they
will have been distributed to all news servers on the Net. It's not
specifically a NIN thing.
--
John Hall

"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

In article ,
Alex Stephens Jr writes:
Way too much for my liking Gaz.
I hope this isn't a sign of things to come on the NIN, now that we have to
pay for it?
Or have all servers been hammered

The articles will have been posted through one server, from where they
will have been distributed to all news servers on the Net. It's not
specifically a NIN thing.
--
John Hall

"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

In article ,
Alex Stephens Jr writes:
Way too much for my liking Gaz.
I hope this isn't a sign of things to come on the NIN, now that we have to
pay for it?
Or have all servers been hammered

The articles will have been posted through one server, from where they
will have been distributed to all news servers on the Net. It's not
specifically a NIN thing.
--
John Hall

"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

In article ,
Anne Burgess writes:

Its weird, some of the subject lines start [WR], which suggests to me that
it maybe corrupting some incoming legitimate postings.

Suggests to me that it is someone who is familiar with the group rather than
a random attack.

It was always likely to be someone with a grudge against the group, I
think.
--
John Hall "He crams with cans of poisoned meat
The subjects of the King,
And when they die by thousands G.K.Chesterton:
Why, he laughs like anything." from "Song Against Grocers"

In article ,
Anne Burgess writes:

Its weird, some of the subject lines start [WR], which suggests to me that
it maybe corrupting some incoming legitimate postings.

Suggests to me that it is someone who is familiar with the group rather than
a random attack.

It was always likely to be someone with a grudge against the group, I
think.
--
John Hall "He crams with cans of poisoned meat
The subjects of the King,
And when they die by thousands G.K.Chesterton:
Why, he laughs like anything." from "Song Against Grocers"

In article ,
Anne Burgess writes:

Its weird, some of the subject lines start [WR], which suggests to me that
it maybe corrupting some incoming legitimate postings.

Suggests to me that it is someone who is familiar with the group rather than
a random attack.

It was always likely to be someone with a grudge against the group, I
think.
--
John Hall "He crams with cans of poisoned meat
The subjects of the King,
And when they die by thousands G.K.Chesterton:
Why, he laughs like anything." from "Song Against Grocers"

In article ,
Anne Burgess writes:

Its weird, some of the subject lines start [WR], which suggests to me that
it maybe corrupting some incoming legitimate postings.

Suggests to me that it is someone who is familiar with the group rather than
a random attack.

It was always likely to be someone with a grudge against the group, I
think.
--
John Hall "He crams with cans of poisoned meat
The subjects of the King,
And when they die by thousands G.K.Chesterton:
Why, he laughs like anything." from "Song Against Grocers"

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:59:59 -0000, "Gary \(Torquay\)"
wrote:

Is it me or did we just receive a HELL of a lot of spam!????

Gary
www.weatherbanter.co.uk

I have received none of this spam! I am using Agent with NIN .
So one of these is blocking it!
Elma in Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK