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

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.
 

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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.
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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.
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In ten + years they never have cracked it.
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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.
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But technically its not hard to do for a small community of users

 A hobby project for you? =)

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Got too many already. I'll let eternal September take the strain :-)

Sounds reasonable!