On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:49:26 +0000, C W Rose wrote: > Having run a check for straightforward spam, I now find that there's a > site editing and reposting non-spam posts. An example of the changed > headers follows: > > Original post headers: >> >> From c...@seckford.org Sun Feb 11 23:23:22 2018 Path: >> eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for- mail >> Message-ID: <4sd3le-ct4....@tanner.seckford.org> >> From: C W Rose <c...@seckford.org> >> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Spam levels. >> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 14:57:40 +0000 Lines: 49 Organization: None >> Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; >> posting-host="208e6410f66c7dd789dea67159b51bb7"; >> logging-data="6406"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal- september.org"; >> posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18su+yG7dqCpnqChqoPIY0JNXRwgNWzvcs=" >> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) >> (Linux/3.10.79-gentoo-1 (i686)) >> Cancel-Lock: sha1:H7zOidR0ivbNjqiWUB6DSoMMYu8= >> Xref: tanner.seckford.org comp.lang.python:139461 >> >> > Repost headers: >> >> From C Sun Feb 11 23:22:54 2018 Path: >> eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal- september.org!aioe.org!news.bbs.geek.nz!.POSTED.agency.bbs.geek.nz!not- for-mail >> Message-ID: <847574...@f38.n261.z1.binkp.net> >> From: C W Rose <c...@seckford.org> (C W Rose) >> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Spam levels. >> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 14:57:40 +1200 Organization: fsxNet Usenet >> Gateway | bbs.nz/#fsxNet Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; >> charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: >> news.bbs.geek.nz; >> posting-host="M6YmRdZYyc42DJk0lNlt/X4dpP4dzvceBNabSmESN3E"; >> logging-data="24378"; mail-complaints-to="ab...@news.bbs.geek.nz" >> User-Agent: VSoup v1.2.9.47Beta [95/NT] >> X-MailConverter: SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 X-Comment-To: All Xref: >> tanner.seckford.org comp.lang.python:139479 > > Looking at my current comp.lang.python news spool, 182 out of 683 > messages have been reposted by news.bbs.geek.nz; I haven't checked if > they are all duplicates. The reformatting of the body of message is to > date trivial, just a reduction in line length. > > This may be the result of a misconfigured spam filter, or an actual spam > attack; anyway, I've now filtered news.bbs.geek.nz from my feed. > > Will
many thanks for the effort /dev/null on my laptop is now almost full with this junk :-) -- Let's do it. -- Gary Gilmore, to his firing squad -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list