Re: Swen Really Sucks

["Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonathan () nuclearelephant com>]

> So, Swen/Gibe.F uses NNTP to scrape newsgoogleroups (a.k.a. usegooglenet,
> formerly known as usenet newsgroups) for new e-mail addresses to which to spam
> copies of itself.

A little useful bit of information stored in the nether regions of my
brain: as far as I understand it, http://www.usenetserver.com is
actually one of Google's primary newsfeeds for their website (if not THE
primary news feed).  They push gigs and gigs and gigs a day.  If this is
the case, then (thank goodness) Google is more of a recipient than a
provider of newsfeeds.

They got good monthly pricing on client connections too =)


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