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Re: Trace this guy and shut him down?

Subject: Re: Trace this guy and shut him down?
From: Whiskers
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:14:17 +0100
Newsgroups: 24hoursupport.helpdesk
On 2006-06-30, ellis_jay <ellis_jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there anyway to trace this guy and shut him down?  He has posted this

What?

> about 25 times and has been a pest for the last 2-3 weeks with his feuding
> with another poster named Ron.  There has been bodily threats tossed back
> and forth between them.  The regulars in the group are staying out of it,
> but this imposter is interferring (sp) with downloads and contests over at
> Rec.gambling.racing.  There is one poster in the group that does post from
> Tampa, Florida, and I could give the header-and I will do in a follow up.
> If the imposter and the regular poster from Tampa are one and the same, then
> I suppose then that I will not follow up with passing the info gleaned from
> this group.  The real Ron and the regular from Tampa are fussing, but this
> phony Ron may be another person.  Bunch of shit.

snip


Forget about 'Tampa, Florida' as a useful clue for whatever it is that's 
bothering you.

If there are two posters with similar posting names, look carefully at the 
headers of each to tell them apart.

Is

  From: ron <ronduh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Newsgroups: rec.gambling.racing
  Subject: Re: Saturday classic 7/01
  Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:17:34 -0400
  Message-ID: <e83faf$2f0n$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-71-122-202-214.tampfl.dsl-w.verizon.net
  X-Complaints-To: usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

the same person as

  From: "ron" <ronwins@xxxxxxxxx>
  Newsgroups: alt.sport.horse-racing
  Subject: Re: Dialogue about Jesus Christ
  Date: 29 Jun 2006 18:01:34 -0700
  Message-ID: <1151629294.123887.293640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.136.26.226
  X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@xxxxxxxxxx

(you decide).


Is

  From: spOOkie <jimbodini71@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Newsgroups: alt.sport.horse-racing
  Subject: Re: Dialogue about Jesus Christ
  Message-ID: <86Uog.20633$Gh.14644@trnddc02>
  Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:29:40 GMT
  NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.98.217.208
  X-Complaints-To: abuse@xxxxxxxxxxx

The same person as either of them?  Again, you decide.

As long as all those people use consistent identities (ie the stuff you 
don't want to see always comes from the same one) then it's easy enough to 
'block' or 'plonk' that one using your newsreader's filtering abilities 
(people reading via Google Groups are out of luck, they'll just have to 
use their own brains to do the ignoring).

If you really think that someone is breaking the 'terms of service' of 
their news-service provider then contact the 'abuse' or 'complaints' 
address mentioned in the headers of their articles.  

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