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OT but newsgroup /Demon related
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 -- Chris French |
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