What was the biggest flamewar on usenet ever? What were some funny memories of it.
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What was the biggest flamewar on usenet ever? What were some funny memories of it.
Once upon a time in a magickal land far far away the being called yodabytz stirred from its deep slumber and pronounced to Rootbadger:
On 25 Jul 2002 07:17:44 GMT, Tessa entri...@yahoo.com wrote:
Not really a flamewar as such but a massive flood.
I used a socks5 proxy to hijack an ISP's NNTP server to post a harmless looking message asking nicely for FAQs to thousands of groups using different names and subjects and set followups to alt.bad.clams. There was a nasty resident netKKKop who there who thought he owned the group.
Oh how I laughed when I saw all the long FAQs landing from responsible usenetizens who had been duped. I'd love to have seen his face that morning! There were many hundreds of them in his precious group!
Even Tim Skirvin commented on it, but that seems to have been wiped from history, all I can find is this:
https://rootbadger.com/shortened/g47ofkve3
On Jul 31, 2026 9:18 AM, Steve Leyland sensed a disturbance and said:
Who did the flooding?
Once upon a time in a magickal land far far away the being called yodabytz stirred from its deep slumber and pronounced to Rootbadger:
I used a script to multi post the OP asking for FAQs but the follow up headers were set to the victim group.
So once they replied to the post with their FAQs it only went to alt.bad.clams and they wouldn't have even seen their reply in their own group. So in a way the many hundreds of FAQ posters did the flooding!
lmao
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