Respam levels.

C W Rose cwr at seckford.org
Tue Feb 13 07:49:26 EST 2018


Having run a check for straightforward spam, I now find that there's a site
editing and reposting non-spam posts.  An example of the changed headers
follows:

Original post headers:
>
> From cwr at seckford.org Sun Feb 11 23:23:22 2018
> Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
> Message-ID: <4sd3le-ct4.ln1 at tanner.seckford.org>
> From: C W Rose <cwr at seckford.org>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
> Subject: Spam levels.
> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 14:57:40 +0000
> Lines: 49
> Organization: None
> Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="208e6410f66c7dd789dea67159b51bb7";
> 	logging-data="6406"; mail-complaints-to="abuse at eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18su+yG7dqCpnqChqoPIY0JNXRwgNWzvcs="
> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/3.10.79-gentoo-1 (i686))
> Cancel-Lock: sha1:H7zOidR0ivbNjqiWUB6DSoMMYu8=
> Xref: tanner.seckford.org comp.lang.python:139461
> 

Repost headers:
>
> From C Sun Feb 11 23:22:54 2018
> Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!news.bbs.geek.nz!.POSTED.agency.bbs.geek.nz!not-for-mail
> Message-ID: <847574370 at f38.n261.z1.binkp.net>
> From: C W Rose <cwr at seckford.org> (C W Rose)
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
> Subject: Spam levels.
> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 14:57:40 +1200
> Organization: fsxNet Usenet Gateway | bbs.nz/#fsxNet
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Injection-Info: news.bbs.geek.nz; posting-host="M6YmRdZYyc42DJk0lNlt/X4dpP4dzvceBNabSmESN3E";
> 	logging-data="24378"; mail-complaints-to="abuse at news.bbs.geek.nz"
> User-Agent: VSoup v1.2.9.47Beta [95/NT]
> X-MailConverter: SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
> X-Comment-To: All
> Xref: tanner.seckford.org comp.lang.python:139479

Looking at my current comp.lang.python news spool, 182 out of 683 messages
have been reposted by news.bbs.geek.nz; I haven't checked if they are all
duplicates.  The reformatting of the body of message is to date trivial,
just a reduction in line length.

This may be the result of a misconfigured spam filter, or an actual spam
attack; anyway, I've now filtered news.bbs.geek.nz from my feed.

Will

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"When we look around us, this is what we find,
 The hope that springs eternal, springs right up your behind."
  -- Ian Dury




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