Sorry, I'm in the Digest. :)
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>
> Date: 25 Mar 1997 07:23:57 -0800
> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> Subject: FAQs regurgitated out of calgary.istar.net
>
> 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.
Well, did you know that HUNDREDS of news.answers posts had been canceled by
the "winternet canceler?" I'm sure that the two are connected-- someone
may have looked at the canceled message-ID numbers and tried to repost any
of the ones that were canceled...
Or, istar could just be going haywire. :)
> 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:?)
Woo. Not that I know of... It might.
> 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
Thanks for the report, Tom!
kate.
whose five-part mini-faqs got canceled by the winternet canceler.
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