Where's the junk coming from?

[Tim Golden]

On 28/06/2018 09:05, Kerr Avon wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 21:43:12 +1200, Avon wrote:
> 
>> Hey Cameron,
>>
>> Apologies for this. I have contacted the Fido system connected to the
>> gateway I run into news.bbs.nz and have asked them to urgently sort /
>> check what's up. If I don't get any joy from them within the next 24
>> hours I will delink them so as to negate further probs.
>>
>> My hunch is a BBS (yes they still exist :)) is taking a gated feed of
>> this newsgroup and is linked to more than one gateway so stuff is
>> looping... not good.
>>
>> Stand by caller... we're working on this now.
>>
>> Best, Paul newsmaster [at] news dot bbs dot nz
> 
> Yep confirming I found the issue lay with the sysop of a BBS that connects
> to the gateway linked to news.bbs.nz
> 
> I have delinked him while he addresses the issue (which he has found) and
> we will leave him delinked for a few more days to be sure.
> 
> If anyone spots anything amiss that looks like it's coming in from
> news.bbs.nz please feel free to contact me again and I'll get right on to
> it.
> 
> Apologies for the hassles.
> 
> Best, Paul

(Wearing my List Moderator hat)

Thanks very much for addressing this for us, and to Cameron and others 
who did the detective work. I admit I assumed at first it was some kind 
of odd attack perhaps related to a dissatisfied poster so I'm glad it 
was a misconfiguration issue.

TJG