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

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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
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[OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-08-04 11:48 -0700
  Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-08-04 12:33 -0700
    Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-08-04 23:07 +0200
      Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-08-04 17:19 -0400
        Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-08-04 23:26 +0200
          Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-08-04 17:37 -0400
        Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! uBend <d0b@d1b.d1b.null> - 2012-08-04 20:48 -0500
          Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-08-05 08:51 -0700
            Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! kensi <kensi_kensington@zoonoses.invalid> - 2012-08-05 13:02 -0400
              Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! uBend <d0b@d1b.d1b.null> - 2012-08-05 22:53 -0400
                Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! kensi <kensi_kensington@zoonoses.invalid> - 2012-08-05 23:24 -0400
                Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-08-06 04:10 +0000
          Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-08-06 04:06 +0000
      Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-08-04 14:32 -0700
      Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2012-08-04 23:50 +0200
      Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! markspace <-@.> - 2012-08-04 16:36 -0700
      Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-08-04 21:40 -0400
      Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-08-04 18:50 -0700
        Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-08-05 13:12 +0200
      Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-08-05 09:07 -0700
        Re: [OT] Who's echoing all posts redundantly? Please stop! Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2012-08-05 20:11 +0200

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