Repeated Names (Repeated Names)

[Skip Montanaro]

Apologies. I interpreted your use of the word "fake" to imply the
domain didn't really exist. In that case, I would have not expected a
website to be up, nor an email to succeed (even with delays).

S

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 5:12 AM, Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet at unequivocal.eu> wrote:
> 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.
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