In message , chris French
writes
In message , Janet Tweedy
writes
In article , Alan
writes
As 99.99% of people don't know how to cross post, except the
spammers, blocking (killing) cross posted articles is a good way of
cutting down the spam in newsgroup posts.

In Turnpike:
To kill crossposted article the rule is /^Newsgroups:.*,/h


No reading the headers they do seem to be coming from Turnpike for
some reason - however after three days of them (mostly in Russian or
at least characters instead of letters) they have now stopped. Very
strange, they did not come via email but from my newsgroups receiver,
yet they came to my email window NOT the newsgroup one!


As you surmise, the email are from Turnpike, effectively sending them
to itself, hence why they don't appear in Mailwasher. IIRC normally
Turnpike does this when you try to post a message to a newsgroup you
aren't subscribed to, or if you receive messages for a group you
aren;'t subscribed too somehow.. So it effectively send the message
back to you. It doesn't appear in a newsgroup, because it has no
newsgroup to put them in.

I'm guessing some weirdness with the news serer is at the root of this,
possibly it was sending messages to turnpike that weren't for a
subscribed group, Turnpike then sends them via email to you


And as all its users will tell you the probability of a software or
non-conformance fault in Turnpike is pretty small if not non-existent.
--
hugh
"Believe nothing. No matter where you read it, Or who said it, Even if
I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own
common sense." Buddha