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From: "Patricia Shanahan" <patricia.shanahan@1:261/38.remove-2y0-this>
Subject: Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop!
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  To: Lew
From: Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>

On 8/4/2012 11:48 AM, Lew wrote:
> Who's echoing all these posts marked with
>
> <quote>
> -- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1
>   * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
> --- Synchronet 3.16a-Win32 NewsLink 1.98
> Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24
> </quote>
>
> STOP IT!
>
> Please.
>
> Is this an attack from an unemployed Ukrainian tuba player, perhaps?
>

The corrupted paths seem to point back to tds.net. I believe someone was going 
to try to contact their abuse address. Did that happen?

Does the bug affect any newsgroups other than comp.lang.java.programmer? It's 
the only affected newsgroup I follow.

Patricia

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1
 * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
--- Synchronet 3.16a-Win32 NewsLink 1.98
Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24