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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 17:04:03 -0400
From: Vic <tudor AT CAM DOT ORG>
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Subject: [Fwd: Fwd: UDP Imposed On UUNet]

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From: Derek <destey AT sover DOT net>
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Subject: Fwd: UDP Imposed On UUNet
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 09:06:49 -0400
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This is big, really big. Finally someone's taking action.
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**Spam is cencorship**
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

ATTENTION: To all users who are sick of the spam trap that usenet
has become:
 
The time has come. Your distaste for the state of usenet is shared by
many, including sysadmins and site administrators. You are tired of
the vast wasteland of spam, and they are tired wasting their time
passing
along this trash and pretending this is what the net is for.
 
Today, one of the usenet administrators involved in the present
activity processed 1 million usenet messages on his system for the first
time.
40% of that was spam. So much spam is being sent that many of the
heavily
targeted newsgroups have no regular users anymore -- they are all
spam.
 
In the past week, 1.2 million spams were passed through usenet. In
that time period, almost half of the spam produced was sent through
UUNet
dialups such as Alterdial. In the last month they have produced 1/3 to
1/2 of all spam as counted daily.
 
At 20:00 Eastern time several concerned admins and other user began
the war to take back the net. At that time, a complete Usenet Death
Penalty
was imposed on all traffic from UUNet. Every message sent from this
system
will be canceled.
 
This cannot work for long. Cancels also take up bandwidth. Spam is
already so bad that the net is slowed down due to loss of bandwidth.
Between the two, the problem will get worse until something happens to
make it better.
 
If you want to help preserve usenet, here are some specific
suggestions:
 
1. Complain to your ISP. You are paying for internet, not advertinet.
They CAN provide you with a clean, spam-free feed. They can:
 
(a) process cancel messages, eliminating the incoming spam, and/or
(b) install spam filters such as Zippo's Spam Hippo to eliminate
this problem.
 
Still, that just makes it readable, and doesn't help prevent its
collapse due to the weight of spam. So, you can also:
 
2. Complain to the senders' ISP's. For every message from
alterdial.net and ms.uu.net, you can send a copy of it with you
complaint to
abuse AT uu DOT net. So far these have been ignored. If they got just 1% of the
complaints
from every user, for every spam before their mailbox collapsed, they'd
have
hundreds of thousands of messages telling them to do something NOW.
 
3. Read the newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.usenet. This is where the
people who attempt to keep the net operating discuss the problems and
solutions.
 
4. Educate yourself on what you can do to combat spam but reading the
FAQ's posted in news.admin.net-abuse.usenet, and by following the links
in
those FAQ's, as well as using http://www.sputum.com as a starting point
to
other anti-spam sites.
 
5. DO NOT STOP. The time has come and passed that we can wait for
someone else to solve this problem. It is up to those of us who wish to
have a
usenet to enjoy to take it back. If not now, then NEVER. It is that
serious.  

And we are that serious. PLEASE join us and TAKE BACK THE NET.
 
Here's a copy of what was just sent to:
 
Wired
The Site @ MSNBC
Washington Post
Associated Press
Wall Street Journal
US News & World Report
CNN
NPR
 
===
 
Effective immediately there is a Usenet Death Penalty (UDP) imposed on
UUNet originated traffic to usenet. All traffic coming from these
sources is to be canceled until further notice. Only traffic originating
from
UUnet (including Alterdial) is being targeted for cancellation.
 
Sites that simply feed through UUnet will not have their traffic
cancelled. However, at least one site has already chosen to shun UUnet
completely, and other sites may choose to follow suit. Any site that
shuns UUnet will not receive posts from UUnet downstream sites either.
If the situation is not resolved quickly, it will be advisable for any
site currently exchanging news with UUnet to find alternative outgoing
feeds.
 
There are very few usenet newsgroups that aren't complaining about
the accelerating rate at which spam is filling their groups. Those
groups not complaining are already nothing but spam. Their users have
abandoned them as unusable.
 
In order to counter this situation, several concerned system
administrators and users have been attempting to stem the flood by
issuing cancel messages. This has met with some success. However the
problem is becoming so bad that even the volume of cancels has become
a concern.
 
More success has been had by working with the ISP's from which much of
this spam issues. Some are dedicated spam factories and will not
respond. Some are responsible ISP's who've found themselves with a
problem, and generally they have acted to stop it. Some more quickly
than others, but until now all have made an effort and shown
improvement.
 
In the last few weeks, the number of spams canceled has exceeded 1
million per week. Consistently, one third to one half of this has come
from UUNet. News users and site administrators throughout the world
have besieged UUNet with complaints, but to date these complaints have
been not been addressed in any way.  While other ISP's have put forth
efforts to provide to their users and users all over the net with a
relatively clean and spam free feed, UUNet persists in non-action.
Spammers are now flocking to UUNet because they know complaints are
ignored.
 
If the complaints from all across the net are ignored, then it's only
fair that UUNet be ignored all across the net. All traffic originating
from UUNet will be canceled until they show a substantial improvement
in
reducing the amount of spam from their system.
 
This action is being taken by several people simultaneously. Their
purpose is only to reduce the enormous drain on the bandwidth of the
net caused by spam. If there were a significant proportion of
legitimate traffic coming from these sites, this action would not
likely have occurred.
 
This decision was not reached lightly. These people are well aware of
the serious nature of this undertaking. They have absolutely no
intention of gaining anything from this other than to preserve usenet
from the weight of the spam which not only annoys and drives off
users, but literally threatens to ruin the net. Already some systems
have suffered breakdowns due to this spam traffic. Others are planning
to leave usenet and start a closed network which will not allow spam.
 
In order to preserve the integrity of the net, and for no other
purpose, this UDP is hereby imposed on UUNet effective immediately.
 
Further information concerning this decision, and reports of spams
counted and cancels issued, can be found on
news.admin.net-abuse.usenet. Also available there are references to
the FAQs and other documents used by the people who operate the
systems that comprise usenet to maintain its operation.
 
===
 
Fellow users, you have seen other well meaning but doomed efforts to
stop
spam. Please do not allow this movement to end that same way. It is
literally now or never.
 
RISE UP. Let your voice be heard. You deserve it. It is your money
which
allows your ISP to keep their connection to the net They are doing
this for
YOU. MAKE your voice be heard. there is NO MORE TIME.
 
Now or never. Fight back, or kiss this all goodbye and settle for
paying
$20 per month to read MAKE MONEY FAST and multilevel marketing scams
and
porno web sites.
 
It's OUR net. DO NOT let it be taken away. FIGHT BACK NOW.
 
 
TAKE BACK THE NET.
 
 
Unit IV:  SubGenius Police, Usenet Tactical Units, Mobile
SubGenius Tactical Online Message Poster (STOMP) Squadron
S. P. (U. T. U.) M.  Communications,  PR and  Point Scout
"Give me a fast modem, for I intend to go in harm's way."

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