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Newsgroup Spam
Newsgroup spam is a type of spam where the targets are Usenet newsgroups. Spamming of Usenet newsgroups actually pre-dates e-mail spam. The first widely recognized Usenet spam (though not the most famous) was posted on 18 January 1994 by Clarence L. Thomas IV, a sysadmin at Andrews University. Entitled "Global Alert for All: Jesus is Coming Soon", it was a fundamentalist religious tract claiming that "this world's history is coming to a climax." The newsgroup posting bot Serdar Argic also appeared in early 1994, posting tens of thousands of messages to various newsgroups, consisting of identical copies of a political screed relating to the Armenian genocide. The first "commercial" Usenet spam, and the one which is often (mistakenly) claimed to be the first Usenet spam of any sort, was an advertisement for legal services entitled "Green Card Lottery – Final One?". It was posted on 12 April 1994, by Arizona lawyers Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, and hawked legal represe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spam (electronic)
Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send multiple unsolicited messages (spam) to large numbers of recipients for the purpose of commercial advertising, for the purpose of non-commercial proselytizing, for any prohibited purpose (especially the fraudulent purpose of phishing), or simply repeatedly sending the same message to the same user. While the most widely recognized form of spam is email spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, social spam, spam mobile apps, television advertising and file sharing spam. It is named after Spam, a luncheon meat, by way of a Monty Python sketch about a restaurant that has Spam in almost every dish in which Vikings annoyingly sing "Spam" repeatedly. Spamming remains economically viable because advertisers have no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Velveeta
Velveeta is a brand name for a processed cheese product similar to American cheese. It was invented in 1918 by Emil Frey of the "Monroe Cheese Company" in Monroe, New York, Monroe, New York (state), New York. In 1923, "The Velveeta Cheese Company" was incorporated as a separate company. In 1925, it advertised two varieties, Swiss and American. The firm was purchased by Kraft Foods Inc. in 1927. Overview In the 1930s, Velveeta became the first cheese product to gain the American Medical Association's seal of approval.Velveeta Brand History Accessed December 23, 2010. It was reformulated in 1953 as a "cheese spread", but as of 2002 Velveeta must be labeled in the United States as a "Processed cheese, pasteurized prepar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sporgery
Sporgery is the disruptive act of posting a flood of articles to a Usenet newsgroup, with the article headers falsified so that they appear to have been posted by others. The word is a portmanteau of ''spam'' and ''forgery'', coined by German software developer, and critic of Scientology, Tilman Hausherr. Sporgery resembles crapflooding, which is also intended to disrupt a forum. However, sporgery is not merely disruptive but also deceptive or libellous—it involves falsifying objectionable posts so they appear to come from newsgroup regulars. The purpose is not merely to jam the forum, but also to sully the reputations of its regular users by falsely signing their names to offensive posts. Origins in alt.religion.scientology The word ''sporgery'' was coined in the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology, an Internet newsgroup where people discuss the controversial belief system of Scientology. One of the various actions of the "war" between Scientology and the Internet involved v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meow Wars
The Meow Wars were an early example of a flame war sent over Usenet which began in 1996 and ended circa 1998. Its participants were known as "Meowers".Bartlett, Jamie.A Life Ruin: Inside the Digital Underworld" - Excerpt from: '' The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld'' posted by Penguin Random House UK to Medium.com. Version on Google Books: Melville House Publishing, June 2, 2015. , 9781612194905. Google Books pages discussing the Meow Wars (using "Meowers" to describe the participants) arPT29anPT30/ref> The war was characterized by posters from one newsgroup " crapflooding", or posting a large volume of nonsense messages, to swamp on-topic communication in other groups. Ultimately, the flame war affected many boards, with Roisin Kiberd writing in ''Motherboard'', a division of ''Vice'', that esoteric Internet vocabulary was created as a result of the Meow Wars. The wars began when some Harvard students, who had "colonized" an abandoned newsgroup for fans of Karl Malden, , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cancelbot
A cancelbot is an automated or semi-automated process for sending out third-party cancel messages over Usenet, commonly as a stopgap measure to combat spam. History One of the earliest uses of a cancelbot was by microbiology professor Richard DePew, to remove anonymous postings in science newsgroups. Perhaps the most well known early cancelbot was used in June 1994 by Arnt Gulbrandsen within minutes of the first post of Canter & Siegel's second spam wave, as it was created in response to their "Green Card spam" in April 1994. Usenet spammers have alleged that cancelbots are a tool of the mythical Usenet cabal. Rationale Cancelbots must follow community consensus to be able to serve a useful purpose, and historically, technical criteria have been the only acceptable criteria for determining if messages are cancelable, and only a few active cancellers ever obtain the broad community support needed to be effective. Pseudosites are referenced in cancel headers by legitimate c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newsreader (Usenet)
A newsreader is an application program that reads articles on Usenet distributed throughout newsgroups. Newsreaders act as clients which connect to a news server, via the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), to download articles and post new articles. In addition to text-based articles, Usenet is also used to distribute binary files, generally in dedicated "binaries" newsgroups. The term ''newsreader'' is sometimes (erroneously) used interchangeably with ''news aggregator''. Newsreaders that help users to adhere to the established conventions of Usenet, known as netiquette, are evaluated by the Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval (GNKSA). Types of newsreaders There are several different types of newsreaders, depending on the type of service the user needs—whether intended primarily for discussion or for downloading files posted to the alt.binaries hierarchy: ; Desktop newsreaders : Designed to integrate well with common GUI environments, and often integrated with a web brows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pagerank
PageRank (PR) is an algorithm used by Google Search to rank webpages, web pages in their search engine results. It is named after both the term "web page" and co-founder Larry Page. PageRank is a way of measuring the importance of website pages. According to Google: Currently, PageRank is not the only algorithm used by Google to order search results, but it is the first algorithm that was used by the company, and it is the best known. As of September 24, 2019, PageRank and all associated patents are expired. Description PageRank is a Network theory#Link analysis, link analysis algorithm and it assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked Set (computer science), set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal link, reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element ''E'' is r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google
Google LLC () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company focusing on Search Engine, search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, software, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and Computer hardware, consumer electronics. It has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world" and one of the world's List of most valuable brands, most valuable brands due to its market dominance, data collection, and technological advantages in the area of artificial intelligence. Its parent company Alphabet Inc., Alphabet is considered one of the Big Tech, Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Amazon (company), Amazon, Apple Inc., Apple, Meta Platforms, Meta, and Microsoft. Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Doctor of Philosophy, PhD students at Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14% of its publicl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google Groups
Google Groups is a service from Google that provides discussion groups for people sharing common interests. The Groups service also provides a gateway to Usenet newsgroups via a shared user interface. Google Groups became operational in February 2001, following Google's acquisition of Deja's Usenet archive. Deja News had been operational since March 1995. Google Groups allows any user to freely conduct and access threaded discussions, via either a web interface or e-mail. There are at least two kinds of discussion group. The first kind are forums specific to Google Groups, which act more like mailing lists. The second kind are Usenet groups, accessible by NNTP, for which Google Groups acts as gateway and unofficial archive. The Google Groups archive of Usenet newsgroup postings dates back to 1981. Through the Google Groups user interface, users can read and post to Usenet groups. In addition to accessing Google and Usenet groups, registered users can also set up mailing list ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breidbart Index
The Breidbart Index, developed by Seth Breidbart, is the most significant ''cancel index'' in Usenet. A cancel index measures the dissemination intensity of substantively identical articles. If the index exceeds a threshold the articles are called newsgroup spam. They can then be removed using third party cancel controls. Cancel Index *Crossposting is the act of posting the same message to multiple newsgroups *Multiposting is the act of posting the same contents multiple times The principal idea of the ''Breidbart-Index'' is to give these methods different weight. With a crossposted message less data needs to be transferred and stored. And excessive crossposts (ECP) are also a likely beginner's error, while excessive multiposts (EMP) suggest deliberate usage of special software. The crucial issue is categorizing multiple articles as ''substantively identical''. This includes *byte-for-byte identical messages *otherwise identical postings minimally customized for each group it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Corley Conspiracy
''The Corley Conspiracy'' is an opera by Tim Benjamin to a libretto by Sean Starke, who also directed. The work premiered on 19 September 2007 in the Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre in London; the orchestral parts were played by the ensemble Radius. The opera was commissioned by the London Design Festival 2007. Roles The performance of the work lasts for about 75 minutes. Structure Unusually for an opera, all the vocal parts are spoken, but unlike a play, the music is continuous and relates strongly to the text. Background The text of the work is based on Mike Corley's experiences and theories, as shown in his Usenet posts and on his website. Mike Corley is an information technology specialist residing in the United Kingdom. He has a long history of posting Usenet messages detailing how MI5 has allegedly bugged his home, watched him via his television and is sending people to follow him around and harass him. These messages are often crossposted to many different news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MI-5 Persecution
''The Corley Conspiracy'' is an opera by Tim Benjamin to a libretto by Sean Starke, who also directed. The work premiered on 19 September 2007 in the Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre in London; the orchestral parts were played by the ensemble Radius. The opera was commissioned by the London Design Festival 2007. Roles The performance of the work lasts for about 75 minutes. Structure Unusually for an opera, all the vocal parts are spoken, but unlike a play, the music is continuous and relates strongly to the text. Background The text of the work is based on Mike Corley's experiences and theories, as shown in his Usenet posts and on his website. Mike Corley is an information technology specialist residing in the United Kingdom. He has a long history of posting Usenet messages detailing how MI5 has allegedly bugged his home, watched him via his television and is sending people to follow him around and harass him. These messages are often crossposted to many different news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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