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From: Isis <isis55423@hotpop.com>
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.dvd.criterion
Subject: Re: choices, choices... I was curious what your feelings were on this revolting development...
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:02:30 -0500
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On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:22:34 -0400, Free Agent <freeagent@nospam.com> wrote:
>On 17 Mar 2011 21:37:05 GMT, JBFan <JBFan@Boss.net> wrote:
>
>>I've never understood why posts get passworded until now. One can actually make money with a passworded post? I've been trying to figure out the rationale and you've cleared it up, because I couldn't figure out the motivation to download a passworded post. I haven't been utilizing Usenet very long, and some of the customs here perplex me. I hope this doesn't disuade you from future posts, as I, along with many others follow your posts almost religiously! Don't let a douchebag or two rule the roost! Thanks again for all your efforts, JB!
>
>
>I hadn't really been exposed much to these scam passworded posts until
>recently when I began looking for HD movies. What I found are what is
>typical now in the worst cases where you don't find out that they're
>passworded until you actually extract them.
>
>Unlike the type you used to see a year or so ago where you had to wait
>some time after the post for the password but you WOULD get it and the
>post itself was usually pretty good -- an untouched dvd9 or 2 dvd set
>of a very popular or sought after classic title, OTOH these lately are
>just dishonest scams where you're never going to find the password and
>rather are forced to read ad spiels on sites, answer questionaires,
>divulge private personal info, etc, but never are able to get to
>extract the post because someone is dishonestly trying to generate web
>traffic with the same ethics as e-mail spam and the post itself is a
>fraud.
>
>When you extract the post from the rars you're not asked for a
>password right away, rather these posts are designed to string you on
>by actually extracting another set of rars that requires the password
>and you see a message that you need to visit a website to "find the
>password at the bottom of the page" (which is a lie -- you can never
>get to the bottom of the page but rather are forced to do things you
>probably will not do and end up just deleting the useless post.
>
>Fortunately nzb sites like nzbindex try to highlight in red that the
>post is passworded if that info can be found in the headers or nfo.
>But this doesn't work for those posts that don't reveal that they are
>passworded. The alternative is to seek out posts which have been
>pre-screened by humans at sites like nzbmatrix, newsbin, and ngindex,
>or from posters you already know and trust.
>
>Free Agent
>
>P.S. That the smelly cunt is going about touting these PW'd posts
>either shows just how clueless she is (she's admitted that she rarely
>if ever downloads anything -- so she has no sense as to the problems
>and issues of downloaders) or more likely that she just wants to
>maliciously spread misinformation because she's basically a sociopath
>who gets her kicks by controlling and misleading others and fomenting
>discord.
No, actually I agree with you.
I don't like passworded posts, either, but I can see why some would use them to
prevent robot access. By virtual group has had two 'bot hits just this week.
After looking in to the current problem here, it appears that this group is
nuttier than most. I think we can all take comfort in the fact that they
probably won't be around very long.
They ARE a Blu-ray group, though, and it doesn't appear that they are
intentionally trying to post off-topic.
They x-post to blu.ray & boneless.
So all of you might ask yourselves this question:
If the Hollander hadn't been posting off-topic Blu-rays here for nearly a year,
would this problem have ever existed?
Isis
"Often imitated, but never duplicated" <http://tiny.cc/Isis55423
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