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OT but newsgroup /Demon related
I have Demon - is anyone else getting a lot of unsubscribed newsgroup
emails coming from Turnpike_NNTP_Client? I've had a LOT today and it's getting on my nerves. It doesn't seem to show up in mailwasher so don't know I've got them until i download messages. They purport to be sent to me as they are articles from a newsgroup to which I'm not subscribed (apparently) Might only apply to those on Demon. Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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OT but newsgroup /Demon related
"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message ... I have Demon - is anyone else getting a lot of unsubscribed newsgroup emails coming from Turnpike_NNTP_Client? I've had a LOT today and it's getting on my nerves. It doesn't seem to show up in mailwasher so don't know I've got them until i download messages. They purport to be sent to me as they are articles from a newsgroup to which I'm not subscribed (apparently) Might only apply to those on Demon. Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.ukes Janet I had one hell of a lot of trouble years ago with Demon. It wasn't helped by a certain person on here, no longer with us, making false accusations against me. Took ages to get an apology from Demon but I got one. Been with BT ever since :-)) Mike -- .................................... Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive .................................... |
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OT but newsgroup /Demon related
In message , Janet Tweedy
writes I have Demon - is anyone else getting a lot of unsubscribed newsgroup emails coming from Turnpike_NNTP_Client? I've had a LOT today and it's getting on my nerves. It doesn't seem to show up in mailwasher so don't know I've got them until i download messages. They purport to be sent to me as they are articles from a newsgroup to which I'm not subscribed (apparently) Might only apply to those on Demon. Janet I'm on demon and not seeing anything. However it might be worth asking in demon.service -- 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 |
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OT but newsgroup /Demon related
"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message ... I have Demon - is anyone else getting a lot of unsubscribed newsgroup emails coming from Turnpike_NNTP_Client? I've had a LOT today and it's getting on my nerves. It doesn't seem to show up in mailwasher so don't know I've got them until i download messages. They purport to be sent to me as they are articles from a newsgroup to which I'm not subscribed (apparently) Might only apply to those on Demon. Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk I used to get loads of spam - usually at weekends when I was with Demon and had my own web-site. I am now with btinternet and don't have a web-site, therein lies a clue. Bill |
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OT but newsgroup /Demon related
In article , hugh
] writes In message , Janet Tweedy writes I have Demon - is anyone else getting a lot of unsubscribed newsgroup emails coming from Turnpike_NNTP_Client? I've had a LOT today and it's getting on my nerves. It doesn't seem to show up in mailwasher so don't know I've got them until i download messages. They purport to be sent to me as they are articles from a newsgroup to which I'm not subscribed (apparently) Might only apply to those on Demon. Janet I'm on demon and not seeing anything. However it might be worth asking in demon.service Nope, nothing I haven't subscribed to. -- Sue ] |
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OT but newsgroup /Demon related
"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message ... I have Demon - is anyone else getting a lot of unsubscribed newsgroup emails coming from Turnpike_NNTP_Client? I've had a LOT today and it's getting on my nerves. It doesn't seem to show up in mailwasher so don't know I've got them until i download messages. They purport to be sent to me as they are articles from a newsgroup to which I'm not subscribed (apparently) Might only apply to those on Demon. Dunno, I use news.individual.net for newsgroups and they do not allow anything bad to touch my inbox. |
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OT but newsgroup /Demon related
In message , Janet Tweedy
wrote I have Demon - is anyone else getting a lot of unsubscribed newsgroup emails coming from Turnpike_NNTP_Client? Turnpike will not send out posts to groups you are not subscribed to. Are these messages therefore only generated on your own machine when you n reply and the original post has been cross posted? For instance, if an article has been cross posted to uk.rec.gardening and japan.garden and you are only subscribed to uk.rec.gardening any reply to the thread may result in Turnpike telling you it cannot deliver to japan.garden. 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 -- Alan news2009 {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk |
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OT but newsgroup /Demon related
In message , Janet Tweedy
writes I have Demon - is anyone else getting a lot of unsubscribed newsgroup emails coming from Turnpike_NNTP_Client? I've had a LOT today and it's getting on my nerves. It doesn't seem to show up in mailwasher so don't know I've got them until i download messages. They purport to be sent to me as they are articles from a newsgroup to which I'm not subscribed (apparently) Might only apply to those on Demon. Janet Hi Janet, Have just spotted your post. Have been absent birding. Assuming you are still using TP, you may find the relevant NG helpful - demon.ip.support.turnpike. I can't see you have posted there. FYI I was with Demon for 15 years but finally left for Zen - but still use TP, which I still think is the best! HTH .... and apologies for prolonging the OT theme. -- Gopher .... I know my place! |
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OT but newsgroup /Demon related
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! Ah well, I ignored them anyway so that's fine. If they Had showed up on mailwasher first before i downloaded the emails then of course I could have deleted them first. -- Janet Tweedy Amersham Gardening Association http://www.amersham-gardening.net |
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OT but newsgroup /Demon related
In article , Gopher
writes Hi Janet, Have just spotted your post. Have been absent birding. That's OK Gopher, seems to have stooped it was just an unusual way of receiving them, via my email window but from my newsgroup connection (IYSWIM) -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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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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OT but newsgroup /Demon related
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 |
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OT but newsgroup /Demon related
"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message ... 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! Ah well, I ignored them anyway so that's fine. If they Had showed up on mailwasher first before i downloaded the emails then of course I could have deleted them first. -- Janet Tweedy Amersham Gardening Association http://www.amersham-gardening.net Hi Janet, not being particularly technical, as I've said somwhere before, I think the problem is that you advertise/mention your web-site. When I was with Demon and had my own web-site, I got loads of spam and odd e-mails. I changed my ISP to save a few quid, and got shot of my web-site. No more spam or spurious e-mails. Hope things improve. Bill |
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OT but newsgroup /Demon related
In article , chris French
writes 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 Ah, right, thanks Chris, no big deal just wondered why they suddenly started and stopped of their own accord -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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OT but newsgroup /Demon related
In article , Bill Grey
writes Hi Janet, not being particularly technical, as I've said somwhere before, I think the problem is that you advertise/mention your web-site. When I was with Demon and had my own web-site, I got loads of spam and odd e-mails. I changed my ISP to save a few quid, and got shot of my web-site. No more spam or spurious e-mails. Well we had about 5 web sites for a long time Bill and I think we would have had something strange long before this I don't get much spam, lots of stuff in place to weed it out plus mailwasher . Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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