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Message-ID: <3F71238B.8050809@q-cat.com>
From: webmaster at q-cat.com (Nick Price)
Subject: Swen Really Sucks

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.
>>    
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>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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