Rubbish. It's in the headers of your postings. Surely you know this? You are a software consultant, aren't you? You claim to have been on Usenet for years?
A reasonable newsreader, such as Agent which I am using, means one can scan received postings for such information. For example, it tells me that you have posted 74 messages from that address since your original complaint about BT Broadband.
And what was it that made that scan 'malicious'?
Well, didn't you maintain that 'Tiscali' was an Italian word for 'crap'? (your words)?
The normal thing to do in these circumstances is to post all the information you have to snipped-for-privacy@tiscali.com or whatever their abuse address is (which as you were a customer of theirs you should be familiar with) and they will let you know what they are doing about it
- always presuming the 'scan' was 'malicious'. Such information should be available from your firewall log. You do know what a firewall is? And a log? Ask if you're in doubt. HTH
Assuming you have a dynamic IP and not a static one, (you do understand the difference, I assume?) all you need do is power down and restart your PC and modem. The chances are that your IP will then change. All you need do then is stay off Usenet and your new IP is unlikely to be discovered. This would also be advantageous to the rest of the Usenet community. ...(_!_)...
So, Meester Bond, you have discovered my secret new portscanner !
[ pauses to stroke hairy white moggy on lap ]
Let us see what it can do.
[ pushes button on desk ]
There, Meester Bond, that didn't hurt, did it ? I shall now expect to see a flurry of news postings on the internet threatening me with action from the United Nations.
But, to be fair, Gareth must be having an off day. So far we've had: Errors in the use of indice notation, errors understanding Euler identities, (more) errors re DSP, confusion over time and the period of a waveform.
Now this IP / hacking stuff.
Even for Gareth that is a lot of 'blond moments' in one day. Maybe we should call them "Gareth Moments" in the future to mark this day.
ROTFL What really makes me die, is the clown cross posted this to alt.engineering.electrical! I wonder how his newfound fan club within that group will view his intelligence after reading this thread :-)
Best Wishes tox
PS all of a sudden it's gone very quiet in Chippenham, perhaps his broadband connection has conveniently gone down!
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