Respam levels.

[Mark Lawrence]

On 13/02/18 12:49, C W Rose via Python-list wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

IIRC the same source for the "nospam" stuff of some months ago which I 
believe was purely accidental.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence