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Re: Trace this guy and shut him down?

Subject: Re: Trace this guy and shut him down?
From: "ellis_jay"
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:38:24 -0500
Newsgroups: 24hoursupport.helpdesk
Whiskers wrote:
> 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$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-71-122-202-214.tampfl.dsl-w.verizon.net
>   X-Complaints-To: usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> the same person as
>
>   From: "ron" <ronwins@xxxxxxxxx>
>   Newsgroups: alt.sport.horse-racing
>   Subject: Re: Dialogue about Jesus Christ
>   Date: 29 Jun 2006 18:01:34 -0700
>   Message-ID: <1151629294.123887.293640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.136.26.226
>   X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> (you decide).
>
>
> Is
>
>   From: spOOkie <
@netzero.compost>
>   Newsgroups: alt.sport.horse-racing
>   Subject: Re: Dialogue about Jesus Christ
>   Message-ID: <86Uog.20633$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.

Why did you wase your time? Sheesh!

-- 

Let the unseen day be.  Today  is more than enough.

   ___Sador the carpenter to Turin
                    Tolkien, The Unfinished Tales

   Ellis_Jay




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