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    From *Hemidactylus*@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 23 17:25:13 2023
    Looks like a huge influx across several groups. Reminds me of the Chinese sneaker spam of the late 2000s.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From =?UTF-8?B?w5bDtiBUaWli?=@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 24 00:54:07 2023
    On Monday, 23 October 2023 at 20:26:16 UTC+3, *Hemidactylus* wrote:
    Looks like a huge influx across several groups. Reminds me of the Chinese sneaker spam of the late 2000s.

    That feels as invitation to cyber war. Who cares about Usenet these days so lot to take some action? People just go away and leave the groups to mindless
    spam bot scripts that fill servers with garbage.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Burkhard@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 24 01:11:58 2023
    On Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 9:56:17 AM UTC+2, Öö Tiib wrote:
    On Monday, 23 October 2023 at 20:26:16 UTC+3, *Hemidactylus* wrote:
    Looks like a huge influx across several groups. Reminds me of the Chinese sneaker spam of the late 2000s.

    That feels as invitation to cyber war. Who cares about Usenet these days so lot
    to take some action? People just go away and leave the groups to mindless spam bot scripts that fill servers with garbage.

    My guess is the aim is the harvesting of email addresses. People
    reply to the spam, even if it's only to shout at it, which may be enough
    for them

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)