Clark L. Coleman wrote: > 80% of the postings here are gibberish. Is this newsgroup under > attack, or what? Are these all legitimate foreign language postings > that I cannot read on my US-English locale computer? If so, why this > newsgroup and no other similar technical newsgroups that I read? > > Just curious.
This ng is configured for posting using email. Whoever set up up left it configured that way as it is easy to post using email (I am being nice). What you are seeing is typical spam that is sent from an email harverster. I tried looking the charters to see who is responsible here, but couldnt find any reference for gnu news groups. You can easily see what is happening by looking at your own posting, as appended below: Look for the "Approved: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" line and the "Sender:" They are the same. As far as I know this is the only news group that requires approval to post and automatically approves all posts. FWIW that puts it in the class of an "Unmoderated moderated news group". The problem comes about when email harvesters go thru the headers of this news group looking for email addresses. The harverster will find easily find [EMAIL PROTECTED] and BINGO this news group gets spammed. Since the spam does not bounce (it gets posted here), the address is then sold to the "50million verified email" CDROM bulkers. If you check the headers of other news group I doubt if you will see any "Approved" posts. IANE but I believe the premium news groups, such as supernews, do not cancel or filter if the news header shows "Approved' for any post. ======your post starts here Clark========= x-uunet-gateway: mr1.ash.ops.us.uu.net from bug-gdb to gnu.gdb.bug; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:17:09 GMT Path: newssvr12.news.prodigy.com!newssvr11.news.prodigy.com!newscon03.news.p rodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!newscon04.news.prodigy.com!prodi gy.com!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!4.1.16.34!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplan et.com!news.gtei.net!nntp.abs.net!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!spool090 1.news.uu.net!wendy-fate.uu.net!clc5q From: "Clark L. Coleman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: What is going on in this newsgroup? Date: 15 Apr 2002 18:16:59 GMT Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department Message-ID: <a9f5er$afp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NNTP-Posting-Host: cobra.cs.virginia.edu X-Trace: murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU 1018894619 10745 128.143.137.16 (15 Apr 2002 18:16:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Apr 2002 18:16:59 GMT Approved: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: gnu.gdb.bug Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lines: 8 Xref: newsmst01.news.prodigy.com gnu.gdb.bug:6601 80% of the postings here are gibberish. Is this newsgroup under attack, or what? Are these all legitimate foreign language postings that I cannot read on my US-English locale computer? If so, why this newsgroup and no other similar technical newsgroups that I read? Just curious. -- ============================================================== Beemer Biker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10.7K seti units, 18.6 years Ask about my 99'R1100RT ============================================================== _______________________________________________ Bug-gdb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gdb
