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13 Aug 2024 13:17:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Potential shut-down of this news server (Czech users please read!)  
From: Shalon Wood
Date: 8 Oct 1998 03:19:51
Message: <m1af377fr8.fsf@pele.ml.org>
new### [at] DESPAMpovrayorg (povray.org admin team) writes:

> >Unless - we can get specific info on who is messing around and then
> >apply appropriate pressure ... if you do get reliable id data then please
> >let me know - there are people who could apply that pressure - if we know
> >exactly who is doing this.
> 
> The best thing to do is attempt to work out who's in charge out there at the
> university of agriculture and write to them. Writing to the server ops probably
> won't help because if I understand things correctly, they have become known for
> doing this sort of thing. I doubt they'd be responsive (especially given the
> fact that I've already written once to the given contact address and have had
> no reply).
> 
> IMO applying pressure on the university is probably the only way to stop this.

Well, here's a really, really anti-social proposal, but they are being
anti-social. Write a little script that does dejanews queries for
povray.* stuff, checks the header, and then auto-mails the post *IN
FULL* to the two contact addresses listed for vszbr.cz. This includes
binaries.
This should get them to shut it off in self-defense.
Normally, I'd oppose something like this, but if they are deliberately
doing this, well......live by the sword, die by the sword.

Shalon Wood

-- 
People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die.
--Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban


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