Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!news-out.news.tds.net!newsreading01.news.tds.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Robert Klemme" Subject: Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! Message-ID: <501EB52D.56177.calajapr@time.synchro.net> X-Comment-To: Patricia Shanahan Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer In-Reply-To: <501EB52D.56176.calajapr@time.synchro.net> References: <501EB52D.56176.calajapr@time.synchro.net> X-FTN-AREA: COMP.LANG.JAVA.PROGRAMMER X-FTN-MSGID: 1:261/38 b873e285 X-FTN-REPLY: 1:261/38 7634853b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.16a-Win32 NewsLink 1.98] Lines: 93 Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 18:42:31 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.21.70.65 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1344192151 69.21.70.65 (Sun, 05 Aug 2012 13:42:31 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 13:42:31 CDT Organization: tds.net Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:17219 To: Patricia Shanahan From: Robert Klemme 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 >> >> >> -- 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 >> >> >> 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