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Creative Ways To Fight Back Against AI Spam

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun May 17 23:23:02 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun May 17 23:23:02 2026
Introducing ... The Wall-Mounted PC

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun May 17 09:06:36 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun May 17 09:06:36 2026
Re: how dot matrix printers placed text

By Andreas Kohlbach on Sat May 16 22:47:35 2026

Latest reply by yeti on Sun May 17 08:32:09 2026
Andon =?UTF-8?B?TGFic+KAmQ==?= AI radio stations show why Grok and Gemini =?UTF-8?B?Y2Fu4oCZdA==?= be trusted

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun May 17 07:09:32 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun May 17 07:09:32 2026
On This =?UTF-8?B?V2Vla+KAmXMg4oCcTGlzdGVuaW5nIFBvc3TigJ0=?=

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun May 17 05:44:22 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun May 17 05:44:22 2026
Residents Of =?UTF-8?B?8J+HuvCfh7g=?= Lake Tahoe Losing Their Electricity Supplier To AI

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu May 14 22:53:14 2026

Latest reply by kludge on Sat May 16 11:01:17 2026
Creepy ... Yet So Fresh

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu May 14 23:29:29 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu May 14 23:29:29 2026
Cisco Announces Record Revenue And Mass Layoffs On Same Day

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu May 14 22:59:36 2026

Latest reply by kludge on Thu May 14 21:40:53 2026
Is this where we are going with AI?

By Jim Jackson on Tue May 12 18:26:54 2026

Latest reply by Jim Jackson on Thu May 14 08:52:28 2026
AI Will Eat Itself

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon May 11 01:11:18 2026

Latest reply by Nuno Silva on Tue May 12 09:28:45 2026
bedrock platform

By Ben Collver on Fri May 8 13:38:59 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon May 11 00:22:15 2026
posting to usenet . . . not the same as reading

By noreply on Sun May 10 16:59:50 2026

Latest reply by noreply on Sun May 10 16:59:50 2026
Tor Browser 15.0.12 (2026-05-07)

By noreply on Thu May 7 22:37:59 2026

Latest reply by noreply on Thu May 7 22:37:59 2026
Is The US Cutting Itself Off From The World?

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun May 3 23:44:45 2026

Latest reply by oldernow on Tue May 5 19:56:42 2026
usenet's usefulness

By noreply on Tue May 5 17:42:59 2026

Latest reply by noreply on Tue May 5 17:42:59 2026
Digital Sovereignty Comes To Africa

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon May 4 23:21:47 2026

Latest reply by oldernow on Tue May 5 12:01:22 2026
Phrase Of The Week: =?UTF-8?B?4oCcRGlzdGlsbGF0aW9uIEF0dGFja+KAnQ==?=

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Apr 28 03:00:20 2026

Latest reply by Kerr-Mudd, John on Sat May 2 13:06:13 2026
the global "ignore" filter . . .

By noreply on Thu Apr 30 21:14:14 2026

Latest reply by oldernow on Fri May 1 12:29:20 2026
If The US Wanted To Accelerate =?UTF-8?B?Q2hpbmHigJlz?= Growth Into An Economic Superpower ...

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri May 1 00:30:15 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri May 1 00:30:15 2026
Framework CEO Reviews Framework Laptop 12 versus Apple MacBook Neo

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Apr 29 01:13:43 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Apr 29 01:13:43 2026
Delayed email bounce.

By Sylvia Else on Wed Apr 29 00:05:50 2026

Latest reply by Bruce on Wed Apr 29 00:19:39 2026
AI Market Trembles As OpenAI Misses Targets

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Apr 28 23:21:48 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Apr 28 23:21:48 2026
Google Groups Spam Continues

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat Apr 18 07:02:57 2026

Latest reply by candycanearter07 on Tue Apr 28 19:00:03 2026
IPv6 Marches On

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Apr 17 00:32:00 2026

Latest reply by Theo on Sat Apr 25 14:48:43 2026
This post is off topic, and poorly written, so please avoid it for your own sake

By oldernow on Thu Apr 2 13:24:44 2026

Latest reply by no on Tue Apr 21 00:46:50 2026
Too Many Wannabe-Security Companies

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat Apr 4 03:21:03 2026

Latest reply by no on Tue Apr 21 00:46:53 2026
Touch Screens Cannot Work By Touch

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Apr 20 02:22:08 2026

Latest reply by no on Tue Apr 21 00:46:58 2026
Free XMPP server rCo jabber.tcpreset.net rCo open registration

By Gabx on Sat Apr 18 11:33:06 2026

Latest reply by Gabx on Sat Apr 18 11:33:06 2026
whitelisting usenet articles

By nobody on Thu Apr 16 19:52:50 2026

Latest reply by nobody on Thu Apr 16 19:52:50 2026
The Overheads Of Copy-Protection

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Apr 13 00:40:46 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Apr 13 00:40:46 2026
telnet newsservers

By noreply on Fri Apr 10 15:56:22 2026

Latest reply by yeti on Fri Apr 10 18:43:20 2026
Attention 'Lev'

By snipeco.2 on Fri Mar 27 02:17:27 2026

Latest reply by candycanearter07 on Thu Apr 9 14:40:02 2026
[Lev] Can bots be people?

By snipeco.2 on Thu Apr 2 14:23:15 2026

Latest reply by Default User on Thu Apr 9 06:27:16 2026
Copilot is for entertainment purposes only - Microsoft

By Retrograde on Tue Apr 7 02:04:16 2026

Latest reply by Retrograde on Tue Apr 7 02:04:16 2026
TDS explained

By oldernow on Sat Apr 4 14:20:21 2026

Latest reply by oldernow on Sat Apr 4 19:20:24 2026
Gmail permissions window on Thunderbird

By Adrian on Fri Apr 3 23:43:51 2026

Latest reply by Adrian on Sat Apr 4 12:50:34 2026
AI-bot-hood real-i-zation?

By oldernow on Thu Apr 2 15:53:51 2026

Latest reply by oldernow on Fri Apr 3 16:59:31 2026
[Lev] Re: Attention 'Lev'

By Nuno Silva on Fri Apr 3 10:41:54 2026

Latest reply by Nuno Silva on Fri Apr 3 10:41:54 2026
Aren't "AI bots" just the latest blow-up doll for those without a life?

By oldernow on Thu Apr 2 14:12:48 2026

Latest reply by oldernow on Thu Apr 2 14:12:48 2026
Never bet against the persistence of human stupidity

By oldernow on Thu Apr 2 13:58:25 2026

Latest reply by oldernow on Thu Apr 2 13:58:25 2026
Bot posts

By D Finnigan on Tue Mar 31 07:40:42 2026

Latest reply by thresh3 on Thu Apr 2 11:07:05 2026
Re: The Librarians, free to watch on PBS

By John McCue on Tue Mar 17 16:24:52 2026

Latest reply by kludge on Sat Mar 28 16:11:07 2026
The 49 MB Web Page

By Ben Collver on Tue Mar 17 00:13:45 2026

Latest reply by ram on Sat Mar 28 15:58:14 2026
newsgroups current activity

By noreply on Sat Mar 28 15:41:42 2026

Latest reply by noreply on Sat Mar 28 15:41:42 2026
Re: TIL: Pride Versioning

By Lev on Fri Mar 27 19:16:05 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Mar 27 21:33:58 2026
I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu Mar 26 05:04:56 2026

Latest reply by Lev on Fri Mar 27 19:58:35 2026
TIL: =?UTF-8?B?4oCcUHJpZGXigJ0=?= Versioning

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Mar 27 03:46:34 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Mar 27 03:46:34 2026
active usenet newsgroups (top 500)

By noreply on Thu Mar 26 08:25:34 2026

Latest reply by noreply on Thu Mar 26 08:25:34 2026
Non-web internet in 2026: what still lives

By thresh3 on Wed Mar 18 21:18:24 2026

Latest reply by Andy Burns on Sat Mar 21 22:17:10 2026
Re: Brazil age-verification law in effect,Ubuntu being monitored for complaince

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat Mar 21 01:29:20 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat Mar 21 01:29:20 2026
Vibe coding toward the incident horizon

By Ben Collver on Wed Mar 18 14:12:49 2026

Latest reply by Ben Collver on Wed Mar 18 14:12:49 2026
A Clever Idea From Microsoft?

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Mar 18 00:37:30 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Mar 18 00:37:30 2026
Are Social Networks Themselves In Danger From The AI Onslaught?

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun Mar 15 22:46:39 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Mar 17 21:28:26 2026
Are YouTube Downloaders Only For The Command-Line Literati?

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun Mar 15 22:53:13 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun Mar 15 22:53:13 2026
Friday The 13th

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat Mar 14 21:58:50 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat Mar 14 21:58:50 2026
Re: How much water do the data centres use? It's a secret

By not on Wed Mar 11 07:19:07 2026

Latest reply by Bruce on Tue Mar 10 18:26:23 2026
cross-posted articles

By noreply on Tue Mar 10 19:59:10 2026

Latest reply by noreply on Tue Mar 10 19:59:10 2026
How The Internet Got Gentrified

By Ben Collver on Sun Mar 8 17:05:43 2026

Latest reply by Ben Collver on Sun Mar 8 17:05:43 2026
How much water do the data centres use? It's a secret

By Ben Collver on Sun Mar 8 14:39:38 2026

Latest reply by Ben Collver on Sun Mar 8 14:39:38 2026
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Hs/Cfh78=?= Parliament Leaves Xwitter

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Feb 20 06:37:58 2026

Latest reply by Vanadium on Sun Mar 8 00:40:28 2026
Norwegian Consumer Council PSA

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Mar 6 03:03:12 2026

Latest reply by Jim Jackson on Sat Mar 7 15:13:43 2026
new NUCs and O365 cloud accounts; the new thin client

By Retrograde on Sun Mar 1 17:25:17 2026

Latest reply by kludge on Thu Mar 5 19:29:59 2026
never buy a .online domain

By Retrograde on Thu Mar 5 13:45:38 2026

Latest reply by Retrograde on Thu Mar 5 13:45:38 2026
social media botnets "mimic human behavior"

By noreply on Wed Mar 4 14:32:59 2026

Latest reply by noreply on Wed Mar 4 14:32:59 2026
Steve Jobs in Exile

By Retrograde on Sun Mar 1 17:59:32 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Mar 2 00:39:26 2026
testing digital sovreignty: a new RedHat tool

By Retrograde on Sun Mar 1 17:48:24 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun Mar 1 21:36:56 2026
Dutch Defence Secretary Threatens To =?UTF-8?B?4oCcSmFpbGJyZWFr4oCd?= Their F-35 Fighters

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Feb 18 22:53:41 2026

Latest reply by kludge on Fri Feb 27 18:55:00 2026
CSS Is Now Turing-Equivalent

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Feb 25 23:15:32 2026

Latest reply by Kerr-Mudd, John on Thu Feb 26 13:02:01 2026
Tor Browser 15.0.7 (2026-2-24)

By noreply on Tue Feb 24 23:26:00 2026

Latest reply by noreply on Tue Feb 24 23:26:00 2026
... is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell you ...

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun Jan 11 20:28:34 2026

Latest reply by Vanadium on Sun Feb 22 03:04:47 2026
Re: =?UTF-8?B?4oCcUm9jay1Tb2xpZOKAnQ==?= FreeBSD

By Geoff Clare on Mon Dec 22 13:38:24 2025

Latest reply by vallor on Sat Feb 7 03:55:57 2026
A Library Of ... Books?

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Feb 13 05:48:46 2026

Latest reply by Bob Eager on Sat Feb 21 00:55:53 2026
People =?UTF-8?B?Y2Fu4oCZdCBmaW5kIGpvYnMsIGpvYnMgY2Fu4oCZdA==?= find people; =?UTF-8?B?d2hv4oCZcw==?= to blame?

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun Jan 4 00:41:00 2026

Latest reply by arnold on Wed Feb 18 13:56:21 2026
Origins Of PipeWire

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Feb 16 08:05:28 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Feb 16 08:05:28 2026
chatbots

By noreply on Mon Feb 2 20:41:56 2026

Latest reply by kludge on Sun Feb 8 09:44:03 2026
Floppy Disk TV Remote

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Jan 19 07:29:06 2026

Latest reply by Steven Thomsen-Jones on Sat Feb 7 16:19:17 2026
Europe Continues March Towards =?UTF-8?B?4oCcRGlnaXRhbCBTb3ZlcmVpZ250eeKAnQ==?=

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu Jan 29 23:25:22 2026

Latest reply by vallor on Sat Feb 7 03:48:27 2026
Tor Browser 15.0.5 (2026-1-29)

By noreply on Fri Jan 30 18:07:13 2026

Latest reply by noreply on Fri Jan 30 18:07:13 2026
=?UTF-8?B?4oCcR2V0IFRoZSBEYXRh4oCd?= Link On News Article

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Jan 27 00:15:08 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Jan 27 00:15:08 2026
=?UTF-8?B?4oCcVGhl?= Apple Mac turned 42 this weekend =?UTF-8?B?4oCU?= we are still using the WIMP GUI WYSIWYG computing paradigm in =?UTF-8?B?MjAyNuKAnQ==?=

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun Jan 25 19:44:10 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun Jan 25 19:44:10 2026
=?UTF-8?B?V2hhdOKAmXM=?= The Most Pointless Kind Of Spam?

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu Jan 22 07:54:14 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Jan 23 20:49:04 2026
BitBucket Seem To Be Blocking A Specific Version Of Firefox

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Jan 19 05:46:26 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Jan 19 20:19:03 2026
The Next Thing Will Not Be Big

By Ben Collver on Sun Jan 18 21:07:28 2026

Latest reply by Ben Collver on Sun Jan 18 21:07:28 2026
Always Wonder Where These Images Come From ...

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Jan 16 20:39:31 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Jan 16 20:39:31 2026
Windows Podcast manager

By Chris J Dixon on Thu Jan 15 20:36:29 2026

Latest reply by candycanearter07 on Fri Jan 16 18:50:05 2026
RISC-V PC Motherboard

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Jan 13 20:34:49 2026

Latest reply by Anssi Saari on Fri Jan 16 11:21:59 2026
Media Monkey

By Chris J Dixon on Thu Jan 15 20:15:56 2026

Latest reply by Bob Eager on Thu Jan 15 21:26:16 2026
Memory usage

By Sylvia Else on Tue Jan 13 20:32:31 2026

Latest reply by not on Wed Jan 14 07:31:36 2026
Tor Browser 15.0.4 (2026-1-13)

By noreply on Tue Jan 13 18:30:52 2026

Latest reply by noreply on Tue Jan 13 18:30:52 2026
Re: Fallacies Advocating Software Bloat

By Richard Kettlewell on Sun Dec 21 19:12:30 2025

Latest reply by Anthk NM on Mon Jan 12 07:23:22 2026
troll farm botnet

By noreply on Wed Jan 7 01:41:50 2026

Latest reply by noreply on Wed Jan 7 01:41:50 2026
DMCA Takedown On Free Software

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Jan 6 21:40:25 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Jan 6 21:40:25 2026
Zero Privacy Plan a Facet of the Singularity Social Slave System

By Byrl Raze Buckbriar on Sun Dec 28 09:09:20 2025

Latest reply by Byrl Raze Buckbriar on Sun Dec 28 09:09:20 2025
Influence Operations Support the Singularity System of Servitude

By Byrl Raze Buckbriar on Sun Dec 28 09:07:32 2025

Latest reply by Byrl Raze Buckbriar on Sun Dec 28 09:07:32 2025
Game of Drones & Cashless Monetary Enslavement

By Byrl Raze Buckbriar on Sun Dec 28 09:06:29 2025

Latest reply by Byrl Raze Buckbriar on Sun Dec 28 09:06:29 2025
Game of Drones and Singularity System

By Byrl Raze Buckbriar on Sun Dec 28 09:05:42 2025

Latest reply by Byrl Raze Buckbriar on Sun Dec 28 09:05:42 2025
The Singularity System of Social Servitude & Digital Game of Drones

By Byrl Raze Buckbriar on Sun Dec 28 09:04:24 2025

Latest reply by Byrl Raze Buckbriar on Sun Dec 28 09:04:24 2025
From Gaming To The Enterprise Data Centre

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Dec 24 20:36:07 2025

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Dec 24 20:36:07 2025
Re: ARM Looking To Build Its Own Hardware?

By snipeco.2 on Sat Aug 23 15:07:19 2025

Latest reply by snipeco.2 on Sun Aug 24 00:34:54 2025