Don't feed Troll Nuxx

Danny Colyer

On 03/06/2008 13:38, Alan Braggins wrote:
> Otherwise I guess the answer is working out how to killfile any post
> following up Nuxx aas well as Nuxx's actual posts.

I've chosen not to KF him, on the basis that seeing his posts makes it
very easy to kill any thread started by him.

His posts in threads started by others are so few and far between that
it's not particularly arduous to individually mark them as read.

--
Danny Colyer <http://www.redpedals.co.uk>
Reply address is valid, but that on my website is checked more often
"The plural of anecdote is not data" - Frank Kotsonis

Danny Colyer

On 03/06/2008 19:40, JNugent wrote:
> Using a fake address (and changing email addresses) has helped quell
> that. I wouldn't advise anyone to use their real email address on
> usenet, and no aspersions should be cast on those that don't.

My from address and reply address are both valid, and I check them about
once a fortnight. In that time I typically get about 30 spams to the
from address and < 10 to the reply address.

When I experimented with using an address on a domain that I had a
catchall for, after a month or two I found myself getting a few spams a
week to the catchall but nothing to the actual address.

If you're really worried about spam, it's not difficult to use a munged
address and put simple unmunging instructions in your signature.

--
Danny Colyer <http://www.redpedals.co.uk>
Reply address is valid, but that on my website is checked more often
"The plural of anecdote is not data" - Frank Kotsonis

Just zis Guy, you know?

On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:25:41 GMT, _
<jtayNOSPAMlor@hfDONTSENDMESPAMx.andara.com> said in
<6jq2fvefivur$.k8gz7d6eeqym$.dlg@40tude.net>:

>Aspersion are being cast upon someone who
>a) trolls; and
>b) use a fake email.
>Your exclusion is too inclusive.

It also assumes tat Nuxxy's idiocy is confined to Usenet. It isn't.
He sent me hate mail via my web feedback form, also using invalid
sender addresses. I have no idea how empty one's life would need to
be before expending that amount of effort to make yourself look
deranged would seem like a productive use of time.

Guy
--
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JNugent

Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:25:41 GMT, _
> <jtayNOSPAMlor@hfDONTSENDMESPAMx.andara.com> said in
> <6jq2fvefivur$.k8gz7d6eeqym$.dlg@40tude.net>:
>
>> Aspersion are being cast upon someone who
>> a) trolls; and
>> b) use a fake email.
>> Your exclusion is too inclusive.
>
> It also assumes tat Nuxxy's idiocy is confined to Usenet. It isn't.
> He sent me hate mail via my web feedback form, also using invalid
> sender addresses. I have no idea how empty one's life would need to
> be before expending that amount of effort to make yourself look
> deranged would seem like a productive use of time.

No, I don't assume anything.

Whatever that other poster does or doesn't do, the fact is the same: use
a valid email address on usenet and you will increase your spam receipt
count. You might also provide others with the ability to abuse you
direct into your email inbox.

Rob Morley

On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:40:10 +0100
JNugent <JN@NPPTG.com> wrote:

> I don't know about the other poster, but when I used a valid email
> address on usenet, my spam intake was astronomical.
>
> Using a fake address (and changing email addresses) has helped quell
> that. I wouldn't advise anyone to use their real email address on
> usenet, and no aspersions should be cast on those that don't.

I use a real address, in fact it's one of the two accounts that I use
most for real email. A few years ago it would often receive more than
a hundred spam messages in a day, but only a few got past SpamPal. Now
I don't use SpamPal and it gets maybe one a day, because my ISP has
implemented proper filtering.
If you're not willing to use a working address in your posts you should
at least provide a munged one with instructions.

Fig

On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:12:10 +0100, Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> I use a real address, ...

Really? "nospam@ntlworld.com" is your real email address???


--
Fig

JNugent

Fig wrote:

> Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>> I use a real address, ...

> Really? "nospam@ntlworld.com" is your real email address???

Yes - I was wondering about that but didn't want to bring it up.

I checked the full headers and can'r see an obvious valid email address
anywhere in them. And that, in my submission, is the safest way to post
to usenet anyway and I make no criticism of it.

Rob Morley

On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:32:42 +0100
Fig <me@privacy.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:12:10 +0100, Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I use a real address, ...
>
> Really? "nospam@ntlworld.com" is your real email address???
>
>
Yes - why would I say it otherwise?
You can try it if you like, I might even reply.

A.C.P.Crawshaw

Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
>
> It also assumes tat Nuxxy's idiocy is confined to Usenet.

He appears not to post in any other usenet forums though... he's a strange bugger alright.

Jim Price

A.C.P.Crawshaw wrote:
> Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
>>
>> It also assumes tat Nuxxy's idiocy is confined to Usenet.
>
> He appears not to post in any other usenet forums though... he's a
> strange bugger alright.

That google account has been used to post 27 messages to other "google
groups", some of which allow you to associate a name other than NB to
the person with access to that account from 2002 to 2007. If he
continues to post outside the threads he starts and I kill you'll get
some more information posted here, if that isn't enough.

--
JimP
Its the people who don't know how to do things who say things can't be done.

David Damerell

Quoting A.C.P.Crawshaw <iss02b@bangor.ac.uk>:
>Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
>>It also assumes tat Nuxxy's idiocy is confined to Usenet.
>He appears not to post in any other usenet forums though...

I'm sure if you check uk.rec.driving or uk.transport for his
characteristic illiteracies you'll find whose sock he is.
--
David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Distortion Field!
Today is Sunday, June - a weekend.

JNugent

David Damerell wrote:

> Quoting A.C.P.Crawshaw <iss02b@bangor.ac.uk>:
>> Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:

>>> It also assumes tat Nuxxy's idiocy is confined to Usenet.

>> He appears not to post in any other usenet forums though...

> I'm sure if you check uk.rec.driving or uk.transport for his
> characteristic illiteracies you'll find whose sock he is.

I'm intrigued...

Nuxx Bar

On Jun 4, 7:59*pm, JNugent <J...@NPPTG.com> wrote:
> David Damerell wrote:
> > Quoting *A.C.P.Crawshaw <iss...@bangor.ac.uk>:
> >> Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
> >>> It also assumes tat Nuxxy's idiocy is confined to Usenet.
> >> He appears not to post in any other usenet forums though...
> > I'm sure if you check uk.rec.driving or uk.transport for his
> > characteristic illiteracies you'll find whose sock he is.
>
> I'm intrigued...

He's trying to sound like he knows something, but in reality, I can
assure you that he knows nothing, because there's nothing to know.
I'm sure you're used to such pathetic tactics from the trolls by now.
I don't know whether he thought he was going to bluff me into some
kind of admission or something. For such deceitful liars, the trolls
are pretty bad at pulling the wool over people's eyes really.

If I was posting on another newsgroup, I'd be perfectly happy to use
the same ID here. I have no problem with people knowing my attitude
towards the utter twats who dominate this newsgroup. If you're anti-
camera, you get flamed and called a troll here however reasonable you
are (the trolls don't like their camera support being exposed as
unscientific), so there doesn't seem much point in refraining from
being direct and telling the trolls what you really think of them.

Philip Marlowe

In news:8ceb44h398eoqg4te7kgeag399m6t4ljpm@4ax.com,
Just zis Guy, you know? <uce@ftc.gov> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us:
> It also assumes tat Nuxxy's idiocy is confined to Usenet. It isn't.

By using my l33t detecting 5k1llz, I have determined that Nuxxy-wuxxy
apparently posts to certain Interweb Fora under the moniker "Bobby
Lightcycles". It will come as no surprise that feeding said moniker into a
FWSE brings up S+f+ Sp++d Forums (sic) at the very top of the list.

My source describes it as "a consummate turd", which I believe to be a fair,
though possibly not sufficiently vitriolic, description of something that
would lose in a battle of wits with a dead hedgehog.

--
Marlowe
Private Investigator