On 2017-12-17, Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I've emailed the administrator of bbs.geek.nz, maybe he >>> will be able to stop it. >> >> Thanks, Greg. We're actually blocking via that and related headers at >> the gateway, which is why the mailing list is no longer seeing the >> duplicates. I'm not sure any of us thought to email the news server >> admin, though! > > I did; the address is fake. > > Worked for me. From the URL http://news.bbs.geek.nz/ ... > I just sent a note to that email address. No bounce yet.
"No bounce" is not the same as "worked". You'll get a bounce message when the mail server at your end gives up some time several days in the future. Depending on how your mail server is configured, you may get a "delayed" warning some time before that. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list