Repeated Names (Repeated Names)

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2017-12-17, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I've emailed the administrator of bbs.geek.nz, maybe he
>>> will be able to stop it.
>>
>> Thanks, Greg. We're actually blocking via that and related headers at
>> the gateway, which is why the mailing list is no longer seeing the
>> duplicates. I'm not sure any of us thought to email the news server
>> admin, though!
>
> I did; the address is fake.
>
> Worked for me. From the URL http://news.bbs.geek.nz/
...
> I just sent a note to that email address. No bounce yet.

"No bounce" is not the same as "worked". You'll get a bounce message
when the mail server at your end gives up some time several days in
the future. Depending on how your mail server is configured, you
may get a "delayed" warning some time before that.