Re: Respam levels.
Mark Lawrence writes: >> 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. >> > IIRC the same source for the "nospam" stuff of some months ago which I > believe was purely accidental. It's kinda funny, back in the 90s Usenet was spammed every now and again by various misconfigured BBS's running a Usenet gateway. Usually sending all messages back from every group to every group. I thought BBS's are fairly dead and Usenet is mostly gone too but apparently this downside has made a comeback. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Respam levels.
Mark Lawrence wrote: IIRC the same source for the "nospam" stuff of some months ago which I believe was purely accidental. I have told the site admin about this, hopefully he will be able to put a stop to it again. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Respam levels.
On 13/02/18 12:49, C W Rose via Python-list 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
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Spam levels.
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 14:57:40 +
Lines: 49
Organization: None
Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org;
posting-host="208e6410f66c7dd789dea67159b51bb7";
logging-data="6406"; mail-complaints-to="ab...@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 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
IIRC the same source for the "nospam" stuff of some months ago which I
believe was purely accidental.
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Re: Respam levels.
On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:49:26 +, 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
>> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Spam levels.
>> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 14:57:40 + 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 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 :-)
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