FAQs regurgitated out of calgary.istar.net

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Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us)
Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:25:07 -0500


Yesterday, someone or something reposted about a hundred news.answers
articles from a machine at calgary.istar.net. These articles seem to
be pretty much the same as the originals, except for having
NNTP-Posting-Host: news-3.incentre.net
and a Message-ID: referring to nr1.calgary.istar.net. My two FAQ
articles were among those reposted.

This morning I got a couple of autoreplies from rtfm's news.answers
daemon. Apparently the daemon realized that these copies weren't legit
and stuffed them into the rtfm maintainers' do-something-about-this
queue. (Which is pretty interesting, because From:, Approved: and so on
were all kosher. Does it actually check the Path: and/or Message-ID:?)

Anyway,
(a) if you got such an autoreply from rtfm, ignore it;
(b) the rtfm maintainers probably have about a hundred bogus things
in their to-do queue.

Perhaps someone should ask the postmaster at calgary to look into this
incident. If it's repeated, it'll stop being amusing very quickly.

regards, tom lane



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