Sporgery

May 15, 2006 12 Replies

Sporgery is the disruptive act of posting a flood of articles to a Usenet newsgroup, with the article headers falsified so that they appear to have been posted by others. The word is a portmanteau of spam and forgery, coined by Tilman Hausherr.



Sporgery resembles crapflooding, which is also intended to disrupt a forum. However, sporgery is not merely disruptive but also deceptive or libellous -- it involves falsifying objectionable posts so they appear to come from newsgroup regulars. The purpose is not merely to jam the forum, but also to blacken the reputations of its regular users by falsely signing their names to offensive posts



DA


Interesting!

Higs, Kather> Sporgery is the disruptive act of posting a flood of articles to a

So in other words internet terrorists

No, I would say more like bored 10-12 year olds in this case. DA

Sounds like it to me.

Higs, Kather> So in other words internet terrorists

Hi,

I do hope they get tired of playing their games before long.

Higs,

Nora

It's best not to respond to them in _any_ way. Their game is that any response, no matter what it is, counts as a "point".

=Tamar

Thank you for this exlanation , DA , i hope nobody here believes any of us could post this Sociopathic posts... What i don`t get is what this person [s] , gain from this ? People here know each other enough to know , we would never do it....So the danger is only in it being shown on international forums ,,,, As we see Cahnging posts doesn`t help , because they steal it as well ,,,, it is sad , but the world is Full with cowards like this who do their harm from a hidden place . Poor childish , infantile behaviour. mirjam

Alison Yes i think you have phrased it as is , and since i daily walk my streets and travel Busses ,,,, i am not going to back off this Ng because of terrorists of any kind ... I am though very interested to note , that it is bugging just This ng , which is a nice ng , and not other ngs where tempers are sometimes a bit hotter :>:>:>:> mirjam

Da , i am not sure about the age , but whoever it is sure shows infantile behaviour,.,,, Mature , Well ballanced people would never do it . I pity that person[s] , they are going to have a very poor sad life . mirjam

Tamar ,,, i know you all adviced not to answer , i failed with the first one , as i worried and sent healing wishes to the first one atacke here,,, but i am not so sure this is the right way, To my feelings terrorists and bullies must be Fought back ,,,,, Cowardly hidden behind their Computers, we enable this persons to dvelope their Anti-social behaviours....Stealing my name and adress for such hidious crimes .... is ugly ... mirjam

Responding directly doesn't stop them at all. What is needed is for someone who knows how to read the posting trail to track down the real originating address - I'm not computer savvy enough to do that - and report them to their internet provider; a good company will close off their connection.

=Tamar

I already did precisely that to four of them cretins. Sofia D(from Brussels with love...... :-)

"Richard Eney" a écrit dans le message de news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com...

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