Google Groups and post 'Properties'

Hi

I see this:-

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Please ....... What does this mean? Why is it here? Note date!

"~BD~" <> wrote in message news:O3dqh4YeJHA.
...
--> This group is NOT listed here http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - WHY?

As some know, I'm always ........ 'wondering'!

Here on my PC the Google Group 'microsoft.public.test.here' has just 9
(nine) subscribers of which I am one (see here:
http://groups.google.ca/group/micros...t.here/topics). Is
there any way to discover who the other subscribers to (any) Google
Group may be?

According to /this/ page -
http://groups.google.ca/group/micros...est.here/about
- there were NO posts after October 2007 until July 2008 - thereafter
posts are in much reduced numbers.

Does anyone reading here have any idea why posts would have ceased in
the first place (and the group disappear) and why it should have been
resur rected again .......... with the first post (I think I remember
correctly) being made by 'Marilyn & Bob <> ,
staunch members of the User2User group at Annexcafe.com.

My perception is that perhaps there is some interconnection, Why else
would my adversary, Peter Foldes, make posts such as those that
follow? Curious. Can anyone explain what he means when he refers to
"lifting the covers off"?

Dave

"Peter Foldes" <> wrote in message news:umpRIHEeJHA.
...
> Marilyn &. Bob
> ooops, I forgot to mention. If you lift the covers off the post
> properties which is
> shown then you see what is underneath , which is your computer that
> always gives the same identity.When you learn how to read and see that
> then I will probably be not here anymore

>>
>> "Peter Foldes" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Abcdefghijklmnop
>
> Pay very good attention to the below
>
> Copy sent to the real Marilyn &. Bob from Annex and to abuse at
>
> along with all identifyers for abuse and forging of other good peoples
> names
>

~BD~

Here on my PC the Google Group 'microsoft.public.test.here' has just 9
(nine) subscribers (see here:
http://groups.google.ca/group/micros...t.here/topics). Is
there any way to discover who the other subscribers to this Google Group
may be?

According to /this/ page -
http://groups.google.ca/group/micros...est.here/about - there
were NO posts after October 2007 until July 2008 - thereafter
posts are in much reduced numbers.

Does anyone reading here have any idea why posts would have ceased in
the first place (and the group disappear) and why it should have been
resurrected again.

John D

"Guy Macon" <http://www.GuyMacon.com/> wrote in message
news:94WdnQMtdd8UW-...

<snipped>

>......... but it really is not important at all. It
> isn't even interesting.
>
>
> --
> Guy Macon
> <http://www.GuyMacon.com/>
>

This might help you understand, Guy.
***************************
"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
news:...
>> From: "~BD~" <>
>>
<snip>

>>| David H Lipman has said, categorically, that there are no 'bad guys'
>>on the Microsoft groups. IMO there is absolutely no way he could
>>possibly know that to be true.
>
>
> I was referring to terrorists. There are lots of "bad guys" from the
> idiots in the Vista group, to the spammers to Butts.
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


I appreciate yout honesty on this occasion. Thank you, Mr Lipman.

I'll explain my thinking just one more time. Cybercrime has escallated
exponentially since 9/11. 'Bad guys' *are* stealing money on the
Internet - lots of it!

Terrorism requires huge amounts of money to be effective. My bet is that
there are many 'bad guys' operating on the Internet (and probably within
the Microsoft newsgroups too) whose role is to steal money - not simply
to buy fast cars, women and drugs etc - but to fund the acts of
terrorism which kill and maim thousands of people each year. I don't
approve of that.

The clever technical experts have been less than efficient at catching
these murderers. Can you think of a better place to hide on the Internet
than within groups which purport to be helping out ordinary folk with
their computer problems? I can't.

Those reading here will probably know that some 'helpers' fail to answer
my simple and straight-forward queries. In my book, that is not the
reaction I would expect from the 'good guys'. My hope is, truly, that
the Police and/or Security Services monitor these messages and will
concentrate their efforts by watching those who appear to be reacting
suspiciously.

HTH
--
Dave

~BD~

"Guy Macon" <http://www.GuyMacon.com/> wrote in message
news:...
>
> You seem to believe that I am having trouble understanding what you
> are getting at. I am not.

I'm glad about that.

> What I am doing is questioning whether
> it is important or even interesting. It isn't.

You are entitled to your opinion, Guy.

>Your adding words
> like "bad guys," "terrorists" and "cybercrime" does not change the
> basic facts of your situation. You are an accomplished Usenet flame
> warrior .....

I'm pleased to learn that I have honed my skills!

I'd never heard of such things until I first visited a newsgroup just
over three years ago. I actually trusted people then - Doh!

> ..... who is a willing participant in an ongoing flame war, and
> you are asking "clever technical experts" in alt.computer.security
> to help you to fight your little war. Again I tell you, although
> you may think that your particular flamewar is way more important
> than the 100,000 other flamewars currently raging on USENET, it is
> not.

I had no idea that you might have noticed my discussions with Peter
Foldes (I am asuming that is the entity to which you refer). I know much
about you from your web site. I know much about Tim Jackson from both
his web site and email correspondence. I believe it all to be true.

Peter Foldes is supposedly "in business" too - *you* try and determine
some information about /his/ business!

>It isn't even interesting from a technical standpoint, and
> nothing that you have posted or emailed to me changes that.

Apart from contacting you by email to ask if you would mind such
contact - and your reply giving me a special address to contact - as far
as I can remember there has been no detailed correspondence between us
'off group'.

> Real terrorists and cybercriminals have better things to do than
> to get into pointless flamewars with someone named "Boater Dave."
> They also are very, very likely to avail themselves of various
> foolproof methods of hiding their identity. The best you can hope
> for is to track down some 12-year-old kid who is flaming you and
> who is unskilled enough to have not covered his tracks. And then
> what will you do? Beat him up? "Expose" his real name so that
> 20 years from now he has trrouble getting a job?

Suscinctly put! Tim said "chasing shoals of red herring". You are both
right - what *can* I do?

Perhaps it may be of interest to all reading here to learn that I have,
on many occasions over the past three years, tried to forget all about
trying to unearth the 'bad guys'. It has been like looking for a needle
in a haystack ........ without knowing what a needle looks like.

Each time I've been away from home (and PC) on my narrowboat, I've put
these matters completely out of my mind, determined that when I came
home again I'd just 'play' with my computer and enjoy the web just as
I'd done before I discovered the dark side of the 'net.

I seem to have a calling to persue matters relentlessly until good
defeats evil here on the web. It has been extremely lonely at times and
I'd welcome help from anyone who is willing and able to help me achieve
His aim.

I knew little about 'computing' per se 3 years ago - I have learnt much
about many things, but still know so little. Interestingly, though,
whenever I'm about to give up, a little prayer seems to prompt another
thought, opening up yet another route to follow. It really does work
just that way!

> If you have an actual question concerning computer security,
> I will be glad to help.
--
> Guy Macon

Thank you for offering your continued help with further questions. That
is appreciated.
--
Dave

John D

"Tim Jackson" <> wrote in message
news: et...
> John D wrote:
>>
>> I seem to have a calling to persue matters relentlessly until good
>> defeats evil here on the web. It has been extremely lonely at times
>> and I'd welcome help from anyone who is willing and able to help me
>> achieve His aim.
>>
> I am not religious, and am not very clear on theology, but doesn't
> 'good' defeating 'evil' come after the final battle and Armageddon and
> horsemen and all that stuff, and happen right before the end of the
> world? Until then the best 'good' can do is live in fenced
> communities with armed guards.

I'd hoped to respond to your last post (here) Tim, before you chipped in
here. No matter. Perhaps a read of this recent thread at pqlr will help:
http://pqlr.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1342


> Personally I'm not in a hurry for the world to end, It may be a bit
> shabby, but it's the only one we've got.

I'm with you on this!

> Why is it important how some guy makes a living, or what he posts on
> test newsgroups? Have you never heard of "Lorem Ipsum" -
> quasi-meaningful fill text?

I regret to admit that I had not.

I found this: "But who has any right to find fault with a man who
chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one
who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?"

Mr Foldes has had three years to drop me a brief email and say, perhaps,
something like " I store important data for international financial
institutions - an off site facility for them in case of disaster". I
could relate to that. That was a simple example. He has said nothing -
nothing at all. No words. No web site. No address. No telehone number.
Unreal.

Providing communication facilities for ????????????? Who knows. Might
????????? one day blow up a bus upon which your daughter is travelling?

I'd sooner ask questions and be wrong, than not ask questions and learn
that that had happened. That's just how I feel.

He also tried to hide his identity on Annexcafe groups by posting as
Derek Feldman until he was caiught out by another poster - of right
across the newsgroup spectrum - called "-jen". Here's an extract from a
recent Header confirming that he is *still* registered with Annexcafe
with that name:-

Newsgroups: annexcafe.general.user2user
X-Authenticated-User: Derek
X-Trace: pegasus.annex.net 1233605502 69.70.248.208 (2 Feb 2009
14:11:42 -0600)
Reply-to: "Peter Foldes" <bounce@bounce>


> They say if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. Look,
> *everyone* has something to hide, but it probably isn't what you are
> looking for.

Little things. Not maiming and killing.

The original red rag to this bull? It was when Mr Foldes first described
the death of my son as being 'frustrating'. Would you, or anyone you
know, describe the death of someone close as being 'frustrating? I'll
leave you with that thought, Tim.

>>> If you have an actual question concerning computer security,
>>> I will be glad to help.
>> --
>>> Guy Macon
>>
>> Thank you for offering your continued help with further questions.
>> That is appreciated.
>> --
>
> That wasn't what he said. Or are you being deliberately obtuse?
>

He said - and I quote - "If you have an actual question concerning
computer security, I will be glad to help."

I acknowledge that he *also* said "I have zero interest in your ongoing
flamewars in other newsgroups or in "tracking" the participants." That
I have already accepted. I didn't feel a need to repeat same. Perhaps
you consider the absense of same obtuse. That is your prerogative - but
it was *not* intended to be a point of controversy.
--

John D

"Guy Macon" <http://www.GuyMacon.com/> wrote in message
news:mcidnZHKZ-...
>
>
>
> Tim Jackson wrote:
>>
>>John D wrote:
>>
>>>Guy Macon <http://www.GuyMacon.com/>
>>>
>>>> If you have an actual question concerning computer security,
>>>> I will be glad to help.
>>>
>>> Thank you for offering your continued help with further questions.
>>> That
>>> is appreciated.
>>
>>That wasn't what he said. Or are you being deliberately obtuse?
>
> To be fair, it was pretty close to what I wrote. If a technical
> question interests me and I have time to answer it, I do so no
> matter who is doing the asking.
>
> --
> Guy Macon
> <http://www.GuyMacon.com/>
>

Thank you for being magnanimous, Guy
--
John

John D

"Guy Macon" <http://www.GuyMacon.com/> wrote in message
news:mcidnZDKZ-...
>
>
>
> John D wrote:
>
>>Mr [deleted] has had three years to drop me a brief email and say,
>>perhaps,
>>something like " I store important data for international financial
>>institutions - an off site facility for them in case of disaster". I
>>could relate to that. That was a simple example. He has said nothing -
>>nothing at all. No words. No web site. No address. No telephone
>>number.
>>Unreal.
>>
>>Providing communication facilities for ????????????? Who knows. Might
>>????????? one day blow up a bus upon which your daughter is
>>travelling?
>>
>>I'd sooner ask questions and be wrong, than not ask questions and
>>learn
>>that that had happened. That's just how I feel.
>
> Even if you know that getting a correct answer to those questions is
> about as likely as you winning the lottery, getting hit by lightening
> and becoming pope all on the same day?
>
> It might help you to know that, while I have nothing at all to hide
> other than the usual (social security number, credit card numbers,
> bank account numbers) I have a program on my computer that every so
> often takes random data, encrypts it, and sends it as cover traffic
> for others who use the particular anonymous network I am using.
> I do this because I am a privacy advocate. I like the fact that
> a Chinese dissident or a corporate whistle-blower can remain
> anonymous despite powerful organizations/governments trying to
> trace him/her. Yes, I am aware that some people use the same
> systems for evil, but the same is true of roads, telephones, mail,
> computers, etc. IOW I am engaging in the same sort of "Providing
> communication facilities for ??? Who knows. Might ???? one day
> blow up a bus upon which your daughter is travelling?" activity
> that you find suspicious.
>
>>The original red rag to this bull? It was when Mr [deleted] first
>>described
>>the death of my son as being 'frustrating'. Would you, or anyone you
>>know, describe the death of someone close as being 'frustrating? I'll
>>leave you with that thought
>
> The above is an example of the sort of thing that I very much doubt
> that anyone here cares about. There are many people on Usenet who
> write many things, sometimes just to annoy someone. There are many
> people on Usenet who who are anonymous for a wide variety of
> reasons, and the technology is such that with a minor effort they
> can remain anonymous even when someone with nearly infinite resources
> is trying to track them. You have a near-zero chance of finding anyone
> who has made even a small effort not to be found.
>
>>He also tried to hide his identity on [deleted] groups by posting as
>>[deleted] until he was caught out by another poster
>
> The above is an example of a commonly held fallacy. You have no idea
> whether someone who is "caught out" is someone who actually did
> make an error that revealed something, a fake who is planting evidence
> to implicate someone else, someone pretending to be a fake who is
> planting evidence to implicate someone else but who is actually
> targeting himself, etc., etc. Even the police don't bother spending
> a lot of time analysing headers -- they use court orders to see what
> is going through an ISP, infiltrators, informers, etc.
>
>
> --
> Guy Macon
> <http://www.GuyMacon.com/>
>

Whilst you may not expect me to say so, I *really* appreciate your
comments. I had absolutely NO IDEA about these sorts of things until I
was 'forced' to learn about what really happens on the 'net.

It was our police who recommended that I personally learnt everything I
could in order to protect myself - I feel that I'm part way there!

The part of the story with which you are not familiar is my being lured
to Annexcafe by an email - it was there that I 'met' Peter Foldes. I was
suspicious from the outset .......... !

In every barrel there can be bad apples - and Bill Castner himself (of
Aumha) gives me a 'hinky' feeling! I've used every life-skill I have to
extract information from those I 'think' (hink!!!) are possibly 'bad
guys' - and they DO make mistakes! After having had my PC cleaned at
AumHa (by Robear Dyer) I was still uneasy - so reinstalled Windows again
from scratch! There is no way for an ordinary user to judge whether or
not their PC is actually clean. They might go to AumHa or any of the
similar 'help' sites on the 'net, be assured that they no longer have a
problem ........ but leave the site with a 'nastie' on board which they
might never become aware of - *put* there by those purporting to help.
That's BAD! I'm not saying that there IS a connection between Annexcafe
and AumHa - but I have a sneaky suspicion that there could be!

I don't want to guide you in any particular direction, Guy. However, if
you'd like some fun, register with Annexcafe and then post on U2U both
in the USA and the UK (different time zones). Simply raise a question on
PC security and judge reaction thereafter! There are some *very* clever
folk there!

Clicking on links on U2U (before I knew any better!) took me to all
kinds of bogus sites. The 'Sysop' of the UK U2U site (Ann) sent me (at
my request) a jpg screenshot. I opened it with 'notepad' and found about
12 *live* links which took me to websites typical of Spam (selling
Viagra etc). She had no idea that her computer was infected!
--
John

John D

Hello again Guy.

I appreciate that you think I'm chasing after ghosts but I'm not totally
crazy!

Here is a Header from (supposedly) a top notch IT expert. There could,
of course, be many explanations as to why, but you will note that the
time stamp is 0249 *local* time. What I don't understand is how the
NNTP-Posting-Host: TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl points to *127.0.0.1*. Is
there a simple explanation?

From: "Brian Komar \(MVP\)" <>
References: <42EAC926-B794-4350-B8EC->
In-Reply-To: <42EAC926-B794-4350-B8EC->
Subject: Re: Renew Expired Digital ID?
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 02:49:46 -0600
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Message-ID: <350CC016-D4B2-4724-9009->
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
format=flowed;
charset="UTF-8";
reply-type=original
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6001.18049
X-MS-CommunityGroup-PostID: {350CC016-D4B2-4724-9009-9B8FDED040EE}
X-MS-CommunityGroup-ThreadID: 42EAC926-B794-4350-B8EC-BABA72344480
X-MS-CommunityGroup-ParentID: 42EAC926-B794-4350-B8EC-BABA72344480
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.security
NNTP-Posting-Host: TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl 127.0.0.1
Path: TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl
Xref: TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl microsoft.public.security:105678

************************************************** ****

If you look at their web site here http://www.identit.ca/events.html -
other than in Internet Explorer - you will note that the broad grey band
is in the incorrect position. Maybe they cannot be bothered to put their
'shop window' right - but it is NOT what I would expect from
'professionals'. When I mentioned this error to Paul Adare and Mr Komar,
instead of giving reasoned answers I was deemed a troll and ignored. To
me, that is not normal behavior. Just my take on things.

Mr Adare has a link in his signature block. I expect hundreds of people
click on same without a thought for danger. What an easy way to
construct a botnet, eh? This is NOT an accusation - just stringing small
things together to come up with a whole - maybe!
--
Dave

John D

John D wrote:

> Here is a Header from (supposedly) a top notch IT expert. There could,
> of course, be many explanations as to why, but you will note that the
> time stamp is 0249 *local* time.

> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 02:49:46 -0600

And what is wrong with that? It is UTC - 6 hours. (which does appear to
be an hour off for his location in Burlington, Ontario)

> What I don't understand is how the NNTP-Posting-Host:
> TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl points to *127.0.0.1*. Is there a simple
> explanation?

Perhaps he is running his own news server?

> If you look at their web site here http://www.identit.ca/events.html
> - other than in Internet Explorer - you will note that the broad grey
> band is in the incorrect position. Maybe they cannot be bothered to
> put their 'shop window' right - but it is NOT what I would expect
> from 'professionals'.

I've looked at the pages of many Microsoft MVPs over the years. Nearly
all of them are poorly written, this one included. Few of them seem to
acknowledge there are other browsers besides Internet Explorer. The page
you list:

<http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.identit.ca%2F events.html>
Errors found while checking this document as HTML 4.01 Transitional!
Result: 20 Errors, 8 warning(s)

When I increase its silly 8pt text to something I can actually read, the
whole design falls apart quite badly.

But it seems typical of MVP sites...

--
-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

Thanks for your post, BTS. In line replies.

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <> wrote in message
news:gmer27$2bo$...
> John D wrote:
>
>> Here is a Header from (supposedly) a top notch IT expert. There
>> could,
>> of course, be many explanations as to why, but you will note that the
>> time stamp is 0249 *local* time.
>
>> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 02:49:46 -0600
>
> And what is wrong with that? It is UTC - 6 hours. (which does appear
> to
> be an hour off for his location in Burlington, Ontario)

Maybe I've made an error? This is the DTG here in the UK 05 February
2009 08:49 (that's GMT)

I therefore dtermined that the post was made in the middle of the night.

Am I wrong?

> >> What I don't understand is how the NNTP-Posting-Host:
>> TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl points to *127.0.0.1*. Is there a simple
>> explanation?
>
> Perhaps he is running his own news server?


Maybe so. I have no idea why that should result in 127.0.0.1 ........
which was why I am asking!


>> If you look at their web site here http://www.identit.ca/events.html
>> - other than in Internet Explorer - you will note that the broad grey
>> band is in the incorrect position. Maybe they cannot be bothered to
>> put their 'shop window' right - but it is NOT what I would expect
>> from 'professionals'.
>
> I've looked at the pages of many Microsoft MVPs over the years. Nearly
> all of them are poorly written, this one included. Few of them seem to
> acknowledge there are other browsers besides Internet Explorer. The
> page
> you list:
> http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.identit.ca%2F events.html>
> Errors found while checking this document as HTML 4.01 Transitional!
> Result: 20 Errors, 8 warning(s)
>
> When I increase its silly 8pt text to something I can actually read,
> the
> whole design falls apart quite badly.
>
> But it seems typical of MVP sites...


That's as maybe, BTS, but this isn't *any* MVP is it?

"The IdentIT Inc. team is made up of some of the most skilled and
respected technology experts in the industry."

It says so here: http://www.identit.ca/services.html

If they are *that* good (!!!) I cannot understand their attitude with
regard to their 'shop window' nor to their attitude towards me when I
tried to help them to correct matters.

Thanks again for taking a look.
--
John

John D