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I'm requesting feedback on the usefulness of a utility I'm
considering putting together (if it hasn't already been done. If it
has, please let us know about it because I could use it).
The utlitity will email newsgroup messages to whatever email
address you designate (after you've returned a confirmation
message).
You can request messages from a certain newsgroup that are either
by a certain author, or with a certain subject.
The utility would run every x hours and check the latest, say, 200
messages in a newsgroup for the author or subject you want. Any
that it finds will be sent, probably batched together as one
message.
This will continue for y days after you request it.
There will be limits on the total number of lines that are sent per
mailing, since this kind of thing could get out of hand.
Only text would be downloaded.
What use is it?
The main thing that comes to mind is the situation where you ask a
question in some newsgroup you never read before and will never
read again. You see these messages on occasion: please reply by
email since I do not read this newsgroup.
Maybe some people would reply by email; I expect most would think
the guy was a bit high-handed.
Using the utility, you can ask the question, and let it monitor the
newsgroup for y days for any answers.
There might be other uses for it.
What do you think? Is it worth doing? I might do it anyway because
I can use it, but if it is useful to others it will be that much
more interesting to work on.
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| Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer 2006-02-22, 8:46 pm |
| In article <pan.2006.02.22.20.03.52.683846@eelbash.org>
admin <admin@eelbash.org> wrote:
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> The utility would run every x hours and check the latest, say, 200
> messages in a newsgroup for the author or subject you want. Any
> that it finds will be sent, probably batched together as one
> message.
After being run through thousands of content filters of course.
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| George Orwell 2006-02-22, 8:46 pm |
| On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer
<nobody@cypherpunks.to> wrote:
>In article <pan.2006.02.22.20.03.52.683846@eelbash.org>
>admin <admin@eelbash.org> wrote:
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>After being run through thousands of content filters of course.
It sure would be a great way to profile a person, wouldn't it? Which
newsgroup they subscribe to, which authors or subjects they choose?
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| (admins) privacyoffshore 2006-02-23, 2:46 am |
| It sounds like an interesting idea if it's used through a proxy, there
isn't anything out there that I know of that does exactly what you
describe, similar, but not the same.
* www.privacyoffshore.net (No Logs Internet Surfing)
* Anonymous Secure Offshore SSH-2 Surfing Tunnels
* Anonymous Mail & News through SSH-2 Tunnels
* Free Resources and Privacy Software
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| George Orwell 2006-02-23, 2:46 am |
| (admins) privacyoffshore wrote:
> It sounds like an interesting idea if it's used through a proxy, there
> isn't anything out there that I know of that does exactly what you
> describe, similar, but not the same.
Baloney! News2mail services have been around as long as or longer than
mail2news services have. They ALL do exactly what eelbash describes.
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| George Orwell 2006-02-23, 2:46 am |
| admin wrote:
> What use is it?
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> The main thing that comes to mind is the situation where you ask a
> question in some newsgroup you never read before and will never read
The fact that your motivation is to end run Usenet netiquette speaks
volumes.
What makes you think asking questions without reading a group is anything
but lazy and rude? Ever hear the term FAQ? Ever wonder how much of a
better place Usenet would be without lazy, rude people asking questions
without reading them?
Obviously not, since in your incessant desire to imitate something useful
you're trying to make things worse.... <big sigh>
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| Borked Pseudo Mailed 2006-02-23, 7:47 am |
| (admins) privacyoffshore wrote:
> It sounds like an interesting idea if it's used through a proxy, there
> isn't anything out there that I know of that does exactly what you
> describe, similar, but not the same.
You're both incompetent. Eeltard reinvents the wheel, and you pat the
dullard on the back for it.
Damned if the two of you put *together* couldn't manage to type 9 XXXXing
characters into Google's basic search page and figure out there's a number
of news2mail services out there already. And not one of them are tainted
by being under the control of an obsessive, voyeuristic, asstard.
As impossible as it is to comprehend, one such service even resides on the
web at <gasp!> www.news2mail.com.
LOL!
Morons....
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| TwistyCreek 2006-02-23, 7:47 am |
| >They ALL do exactly what eelbash describes
The post is regarding what sounds like a stand alone utility
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On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:01:59 -0800, (admins) privacyoffshore wrote:
> It sounds like an interesting idea if it's used through a proxy, there
> isn't anything out there that I know of that does exactly what you
> describe, similar, but not the same.
Thanks, I did not find a web service other than www.news2mail.com,
which provides only a complete feed, and is also down.
I put together a standalone utility that works for me but is klunky.
If anyone is interested, give it a try.
If it seems useful, I'll put together a version to which people can
subscribe and have the messages sent to them via email.
The script is in Python and runs on linux, but may run on windows if you
install a Python interpreter. I wouldn't know.
It is based on a script written by Daniel Kinnaer, which does the
sophisticated (to me) connection to nntp. I added code to make it a
bit easier to use.
The script is at eelbash.org. Follow the 'scripts' link and download
nsaget.
It consists of a directory containing the script, a readme file, and a
config file.
Ask here if you have questions.
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> Offshore SSH-2 Surfing Tunnels * Anonymous Mail & News through SSH-2
> Tunnels * Free Resources and Privacy Software
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| Borked Pseudo Mailed 2006-02-25, 5:51 pm |
| admin wrote:
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> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:01:59 -0800, (admins) privacyoffshore wrote:
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> Thanks, I did not find a web service other than www.news2mail.com, which
> provides only a complete feed, and is also down.
It's not down, and a complete feed is what people want.
Are you so ignorant that you think people won't figure out your little
scam? Let's see.... someone requests a certain set of posts, maybe a
thread through your "NewsGet" idiocy, and some anonymous remailer user
just happens to be posting to that thread. Or better yet, some misguided
fool follows your "advice" and uses it to ask a question in a group
they're not reading, thereby making absolutely SURE the email address
they're handing over to your snooping XXX is the otherwise anonymous
person making those posts.
You're an idiot. You come up with these transparent "gimmicks" that
always seem to completely demolish a user's anonymity but you can't even
run a remailer reliably. You're not fooling anyone. Your sole purpose here
is to undermine the remailer network and compromise as many users'
anonymity as you possibly can.
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