Re: making posts unreadable for google groupers?

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:13:24 -0000, in message <86b7643c51832f3652d62b754bda8af0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Anonymous wrote:

Is there anything like the "web tv stationery" header trick for making
posts unreadable on google groups?


Here are two tricks


1. If the domain part of the message-id ends with a period '.',
then the message will not even appear on Google groups.

The message might also not appear on a few NNTP news servers,
so don't use this trick if you want the best propagation.


2. Google Groups ignores the charset specified in the message
headers. Instead, GG checks whether the body appears to be
Unicode (UTF-8), and if not GG assumes the message uses the
group's default charset.

So a trick for making a post unreadable on Google Groups is
to post the message in a different 8-bit charset such as
Cyrillic ISO-8859-5 in an English-language newsgroup, and
replace as many of the ascii letters as you can with Cyrillic
letters which look the same. GG will display those characters
totally wrongly, making the post unreadable.

If an NNTP client correctly interprets the charset in the
message headers, then the post will look perfectly normal
in that NNTP client. Unfortunately, some NNTP clients are
not too hot at handling different charsets (as bad as GG).

Below is an example of what you get: Compare this in GG
vs (for example) Thunderbird.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ѕо а trісk fоr mаkіng а роѕt unrеаdаblе оn Gооglе Grоuрѕ іѕ
tо роѕt thе mеѕѕаgе іn а dіffеrеnt 8-bіt сhаrѕеt ѕuсh аѕ
Суrіllіс ІЅО-8859-5 іn аn Еnglіѕh-lаnguаgе nеwѕgrоuр, аnd
rерlасе аѕ mаnу оf thе аѕсіі lеttеrѕ аѕ уоu саn wіth Суrіllіс
lеttеrѕ whісh lооk thе ѕаmе. GG wіll dіѕрlау thоѕе сhаrасtеrѕ
tоtаllу wrоnglу, mаkіng thе роѕt unrеаdаblе.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


--
Cheers,
Ralph

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