Re: Java-based Newsgroups Access w/out Monthly Fee

On Sep 9, 4:00 am, gluceg...@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi:

Since I currently use Google Groups to post on Usenet newsgroups, I am
vulnerable to impersonators.

No, it is not Google Groups making you vulnerable. Google Groups is
responsible for a lot of bad things, but not this. It is the Usenet
protocol NNTP which does not guard anyone from faking almost anything
in a posting header, except parts of the path entry.

Someone has been impersonating me on
Usenet and posting garbage.

Well, the writing was on the wall. No, not for you, but that such
vandalism in general was about to start. Just two weeks ago someone
calling himself Almond (aka Gennady Kalmykov, Jimi, Nukleus,
Librarian, Bloxy's, jc, Acharya Veeren, NewsMaestro) spammed many
newsgroups to advertised a tool to do such vandalism. If you google
for some of the above names (particular Nukleus, Librarian, Bloxy's)
you'll find that the spammer has quite a Usenet history.

The tool looked remarkably like HipCrime's News Agent. News Agent is a
tool for massive Usenet flodding. If "HipCrime" doesn't ring a bell
then Google the name, too. Its a legendary Usenet abuser often called
DipCrime, dipslime, dip***, or dippy by those who don't love him very
much.

When I tried to inform people on NGs about
my situation, the imposter began to make my multiple copies of my
complaints changing some of the contents of my messages.

If I remember correctly this is a build-in feature of NewsAgent. It
takes postings from the newsgroup, extracts the header and uses that
information to create nonsense postings with the same subject, from
and other header information.

There are
100s -- if not 1,000s -- of these posts that seem to be from me
because this guy has forged my email address, IP address, profile,
headers, and username.

Sounds like the above tool.

I am wondering if there are any Java-based softwares that will allow
me to post to Newsgroups without having to pay a monthly or yearly
fee.

That has noting to do with Java. In fact, many of the better
newsreaders are in not written in Java. What you first of all need is
access to a news server. Your own ISP, RoadRunner, runs news-
server.socal.rr.com Access should be part of your normal ISP contract.
Then you grap one of the many newsreaders available on the net,
install it, and configure it to access news-server.socal.rr.com

All this has nothing to do with Java.

Here is an example of a post impersonating me:

Discuss such postings to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet unless the people
there aren't tired of HipCrime discussions. It has nothing to do with
Java.

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