The forgeries you've seen in your news group are the product of an
entity collectively known as "Dippy" to "news.admin-net-abuse.email"
users. His attacks consists Posting Forgeries & Cross Posting to
random (often conflicting) newsgroups with the "Followup-To" header
set to NANAE. He's also been known to do direct attacks, by forging
a NANAE regular's email addresses in a "reactive" post to several
random news groups.
Because of this NANAE (and several regulars) have become flooded by
these "What The F***!" posts, none of which are as easily filtered
out as the tens of thousands of the Sporgeries a day we usually get
from this little Slimer.
If you reply to any of these posts you're just adding to this
distributed attack on our newsgroup:
http://groups.google.com/groups?num=50&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=Hipcrime&btnG=Search
No response to these forgeries is the best response; we do not want
to see them, and we're more then capable of filter out this "Dip Slime"
in our own group. So if you must respond to any of the posts, please
be kind, and only reply to the newsgroup you read it from.
Thank You.
(This has been a semi-automated reply... Post #547)

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btgoss - 31 Dec 2004 01:07 GMT
> Because of this NANAE (and several regulars) have become flooded by
> these "What The F***!" posts, none of which are as easily filtered
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> If you reply to any of these posts you're just adding to this
> distributed attack on our newsgroup:
In a perfect world the spammer and fakers would battle with the NANAE
people in their own private little pocket of the Internet. But this
world is far from perfect, so we get to experience this fun.
This is one of those great Batman and Joker kind of things. The NANAE
people claim to hate spammers, but feed so much on, and seem to derive
so much pleasure from, fighting with the spammers that one has to wonder
if they really want them gone. I mean, if the spammers all stopped who
would the NANAE people have to vent their collective spleens at? I
suppose they would get involved in local politics, or the school board.
Could you imagine how horrible that would be... "Madam, school pencils
should be a uniform length..."... And if the spammers stopped, well
where would we be able to purchase discount Vicodin and herbal Viagra?
I wish both groups would collapse under the weight of each others self
importance.