Respam levels.

[alister]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:49:26 +0000, C W Rose 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

many thanks for the effort 
/dev/null on my laptop is now almost full with this junk :-)



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