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: "John B. Matthews" Subject: Re: I leave the room for five minutes and there are 70 new articles?! Message-ID: <50312A54.57038.calajapr@time.synchro.net> X-Comment-To: Knute Johnson Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer In-Reply-To: <50312A54.57037.calajapr@time.synchro.net> References: <50312A54.57037.calajapr@time.synchro.net> X-FTN-AREA: COMP.LANG.JAVA.PROGRAMMER X-FTN-MSGID: 1:261/38 de1ff3da X-FTN-REPLY: 1:261/38 3a14c118 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.16a-Win32 NewsLink 1.98] Lines: 43 Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:11:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.21.70.65 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1345399917 69.21.70.65 (Sun, 19 Aug 2012 13:11:57 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 13:11:57 CDT Organization: tds.net Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:18102 To: Knute Johnson From: "John B. Matthews" In article , Knute Johnson wrote: > On 8/18/2012 3:38 PM, markspace wrote: > > On 8/18/2012 1:24 PM, Arne Vajh-,j wrote: > >> On 8/18/2012 3:48 PM, Oliver Klozov wrote: > >>> I leave the room for five minutes and there are 70 new articles?! > >>> > >>> In FIVE MINUTES?! > >>> > >>> I fetched new headers, marked most of about 20 articles (in the > >>> past 12 hours or so) read and actually read a handful, went to > >>> get coffee, came back, fetched headers again, and 70 new > >>> articles?! > >>> > >>> What the fuck. > >>> > >>> Get lives, you people! > >> > >> There is a spambot that is duplicating old messages. > > > > > > While I've seen some spam over the last few weeks, I've seen very > > little lately. I think Eternal-September is doing a good job > > filtering most of it out. > > I'm not seeing any of the duplicates on ES. I see the same result on ES. Google Groups does not appear to be filtering the duplicates. On aioe, my kill filter has fired 925 times since 2-Aug-2012. -- John B. Matthews trashgod at gmail dot 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