Good afternoon, Netizens... If you wanted to go anywhere this afternoon, at least on Usenet news, you can forget it until one of the news administrators around the world reaches over and unplugs the ethernet cables leading to allthenewsgroups.com from Usenet news. As of about half an hour ago (who's counting after nearly four hours of being inundated with SMUT-SLUDGE?) nearly half a million bogus messages cascaded up against my Usenet news filter and bounced obliquely off onto the floor where they died an ignominious death. With all those attempted messages bouncing around, that left very few processes left for poor old Kharma's news server to use to actually send/receive the news. In short, don't complain about it being slow. Four monster computers all properly dressed with goodies and a fat pipe to the world couldn't keep up with this shit-spewing contest.
An unlikely user named Lisa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has effectively tied all the Usenet news up in knots to where reading the news, even on such a miniscule scale as seen on The Used Kharma Lot, is difficult to impossible. Checking the news on Webusenet an hour ago, I found for the first time in weeks that I took longer getting connected to and reading the news than was likely, given the sheer size of their infrastructure. While I am sure it was not just Lisa that reduced Usenet news to a quivering pulp, since there are lots of people who seem to delight in spamming the hell out of Usenet these days, I see them every day, their useless spewage smacking right up against the sludge-filter on Kharma, and falling into the bottomless hole I created for them. However, if I REALLY wanted to read their spewage, all I have to do is go to Webusenet or any of the other big national news servers which, it seems, do not have either the time nor resources to properly filter smut and sludge from their usenet news. After all, THAT is how I first read Lisa's pitiful little excuse for news, from an unfiltered news spool on one of the big national news servers. So don't blame Kharma for missing articles or being slow. Blame Lisa (or whoever he/she is) for attempting to pass gas in our midst, here on Kharma, but failing miserably at the job. In the meantime, I'll sit and watch the stream of rejected messages stream off my monitor, wondering if anyone out there can find a good pair of side cut pliers and use them on allthenewsgroups.com, thus effectively ending this hostage standoff of words. Dave -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 10/31/2004 Usenet News server: news.kharma.net An automatic & random thought For the Minute: Langsam's Laws: (1) Everything depends. (2) Nothing is always. (3) Everything is sometimes. _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
