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Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop!

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  To: Patricia Shanahan
From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>

On 04.08.2012 21:33, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
> 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?

Yes.  Sorry for not reporting back earlier.  I had hoped I could come up with 
better news.  Here's the state of affairs:

I sent email to news@tds.net as advertised in headers but the email came back:

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

      news@tds.net

Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, 
but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other 
email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error 
that the other server returned was: 550 550-5.1.1 The email account that you 
tried to reach does not exist. Please try 550-5.1.1 double-checking the 
recipient's email address for typos or 550-5.1.1 unnecessary spaces. Learn more 
at 550 5.1.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=6596 
r2si8675364wia.47 (state 13).

I also tried the web contact form but that did not provide a proper category 
for this type of feedback (not even something faintly related, they just cover 
Internet connectivity issues and the like) so I didn't send anything via that 
way.

I then tried various addresses most of which had errors, these didn't: 
postmaster@tds.net, webmaster@tds.net and postmaster@tdstelecom.com

No reply yet.


I also contacted my news provider (news.individual.net) which is a paid service 
and I have experienced them as very professional.  They replied within 2.5 
hours (on a Sunday!) and argued that even if they would filter those messages 
that would not stop others from replying to the echo messages leading to even 
more corrupted threads.  They have a point there.  But they also hinted my at 
time.synchro.net which you can find in headers like these:

X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.16a-Win32 NewsLink 1.98]

So I tried to reach them at

root@time.synchro.net,
postmaster@time.synchro.net,
webmaster@time.synchro.net,
news@time.synchro.net,
newsmaster@time.synchro.net

No errors but also no response - yet.  I suspect nobody read the email.

Currently I have a filter on "X-Gateway: time.synchro.net" OR 
"NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.21.70.65".  But that still does not make reading c.l.j.p 
a pleasant experience currently.

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

Not that I am aware of.

Kind regards

        robert

--
remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end 
http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/

--- 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

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[OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "Lew" <lew@1:261/38.remove-2y0-this> - 2012-08-05 18:42 +0000
  Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "Patricia Shanahan" <patricia.shanahan@1:261/38.remove-2y0-this> - 2012-08-05 18:42 +0000
    Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "Robert Klemme" <robert.klemme@1:261/38.remove-2y0-this> - 2012-08-05 18:42 +0000
      Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "Arne Vajhøj" <arne.vajhøj@1:261/38.remove-2y0-this> - 2012-08-05 18:42 +0000
        Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "Robert Klemme" <robert.klemme@1:261/38.remove-2y0-this> - 2012-08-05 18:42 +0000
          Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "Arne Vajhøj" <arne.vajhøj@1:261/38.remove-2y0-this> - 2012-08-05 18:42 +0000
        Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "uBend" <ubend@1:261/38.remove-2y0-this> - 2012-08-05 18:42 +0000
          Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "Patricia Shanahan" <patricia.shanahan@1:261/38.remove-2y0-this> - 2012-08-05 18:42 +0000
            Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "kensi" <kensi@1:261/38.remove-2y0-this> - 2012-08-05 18:42 +0000
              Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-08-06 07:06 -0700
                Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-08-06 21:52 +0200
                Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! kensi <kensi_kensington@zoonoses.invalid> - 2012-08-06 22:21 -0400
              Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "uBend" <ubend@1:261/38.remove-sao-this> - 2012-08-06 18:08 +0000
                Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "kensi" <kensi@1:261/38.remove-sao-this> - 2012-08-06 18:08 +0000
                Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "Nadegda" <nadegda@1:261/38.remove-sao-this> - 2012-08-06 18:08 +0000
          Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "Nadegda" <nadegda@1:261/38.remove-sao-this> - 2012-08-06 18:08 +0000
      Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "Patricia Shanahan" <patricia.shanahan@1:261/38.remove-2y0-this> - 2012-08-05 18:42 +0000
      Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "Joerg Meier" <joerg.meier@1:261/38.remove-2y0-this> - 2012-08-05 18:42 +0000
      Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "markspace" <markspace@1:261/38.remove-2y0-this> - 2012-08-05 18:42 +0000
      Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "Eric Sosman" <eric.sosman@1:261/38.remove-2y0-this> - 2012-08-05 18:42 +0000
      Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "Patricia Shanahan" <patricia.shanahan@1:261/38.remove-2y0-this> - 2012-08-05 18:42 +0000
        Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "Robert Klemme" <robert.klemme@1:261/38.remove-2y0-this> - 2012-08-05 18:42 +0000
      Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "Daniel Pitts" <daniel.pitts@1:261/38.remove-2y0-this> - 2012-08-05 18:42 +0000
        Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! "Nomen Nescio" <nomen.nescio@1:261/38.remove-9l6-this> - 2012-08-05 19:44 +0000

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