Re: Swen Really Sucks

[Nick Price <webmaster () q-cat com>]

An odd thing I just realized:  I have yet to recieve one swen e-mail!

I've been decompiling a binary I got a friend on irc to DCC to me 
(sorry, not sure which variant) and hopefully after I'm done we'll know 
more.

Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:

> > So, Swen/Gibe.F uses NNTP to scrape newsgoogleroups (a.k.a. usegooglenet,
> > formerly known as usenet newsgroups) for new e-mail addresses to which to spam
> > copies of itself.
> >    
>
> A little useful bit of information stored in the nether regions of my
> brain: as far as I understand it, http://www.usenetserver.com is
> actually one of Google's primary newsfeeds for their website (if not THE
> primary news feed).  They push gigs and gigs and gigs a day.  If this is
> the case, then (thank goodness) Google is more of a recipient than a
> provider of newsfeeds.
>
> They got good monthly pricing on client connections too =)
>
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