While it might have been a forged request, considerably less-sinister
explanations also exist. In particular, if your FAQ arrived at some
Usenet site sans its Approved: header, it would've gotten bounced to
the news.answers.* admins, and you would've gotten this response.
There are a couple ways that could happen: for instance someone trying
to repost FAQs during cleanup after an unauthorized canceller, and not
getting the Approved: lines right. (A lot of us got such notices during
an episode just like that, a few months ago.) Or, since your FAQ
evidently goes to bitnet mail lists, I wouldn't be at all surprised if
some gateway stripped the Approved: header, and then it eventually wound
up back on Usenet...
> Can the maintainer of the auto-responder improve it so that it'll enclose
> also the E-mail message which is being auto-replied to?
This does seem like an excellent suggestion. Maybe enclosing the full
headers and the first dozen or so body lines would be sufficient.
regards, tom lane