Best.* is leaking

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4 total messages Started by Malcolm Hoar Wed, 06 Oct 1999 00:00

#27

Author: Malcolm Hoar
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 00:00

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Looks like most of best.* is reaching Deja. Sadly, Deja do not
save (or make visible) the path header.

I couldn't find any articles at remarq or supernews but maybe
someone else can find best.* showing up on another server,
and post an example with full headers.

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|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
| Malcolm Hoar           "The more I practice, the luckier I get". |
| malch@malch.com                                     Gary Player. |
| http://www.malch.com/               Shpx gur PQN.                |
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Re: Best.* is leaking

#28

Author: J Durbin
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 00:00

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malch@malch.com (Malcolm Hoar) wrote:

>Looks like most of best.* is reaching Deja. Sadly, Deja do not
>save (or make visible) the path header.
>
>I couldn't find any articles at remarq or supernews but maybe
>someone else can find best.* showing up on another server,
>and post an example with full headers.

Appears to be via.net:

>Path: news.alt.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.enteract.com!feeder.via.net!news1.best.com!news2.best.com!news3.best.com!nntp1.ba.best.com!not-for-mail
>Newsgroups: best.general
>From: malch@malch.com (Malcolm Hoar)
>Subject: Re: my first billing snafu - any suggestions?
>Distribution: best
>Message-ID: <7tejlq$18i188_002@nntp1.best.com>
>References: <mail-0510991555530001@adsl-206-170-239-97.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net> <37fa864a$0$205@nntp1.ba.best.com>
>X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.01
>Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 04:37:14 GMT
>Lines: 16
>NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.1.7.2
>X-Trace: nntp1.ba.best.com 939184630 203 170.1.7.2
>Xref: news best.general:1343

>Path: news.alt.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!feeder.via.net!news1.best.com!news2.best.com!news3.best.com!nntp1.ba.best.com!not-for-mail
>From: J Durbin <slothrop@poisson.com>
>Newsgroups: best.general
>Subject: Re: Shell3 shutdown - no status, no explanation?
>Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:33:52 -0800
>Organization: Poisson Distribution Ltd.
>Message-ID: <vhz0N0FS42YuYicknSjX39W4MyLT@nntp1.ba.best.com>
>References: <37f22c48$0$201@nntp1.ba.best.com> <37f23bf0$0$220@nntp1.ba.best.com> <7stf63$n3v$1@machaut.medieval.org> <37f2530c$0$209@nntp1.ba.best.com> <7stkf4$n83$1@machaut.medieval.org> <37f2d21a$0$205@nntp1.ba.best.com> <37f2d5b0$0$225@nntp1.ba.best.com> <37f2e1e3$0$210@nntp1.ba.best.com> <37f2e5e8$0$221@nntp1.ba.best.com> <37f31503$0$203@nntp1.ba.best.com> <37f3dd11$0$204@nntp1.ba.best.com>
>X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>Lines: 31
>Distribution: best
>NNTP-Posting-Host: jed.vip.best.com
>X-Trace: nntp1.ba.best.com 938741646 221 204.156.153.78
>Xref: news best.general:1334
--
jason durbin
stop reading here <---

Re: Best.* is leaking

#29

Author: Sameer R. Manek
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 00:00

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Malcolm Hoar <malch@malch.com> wrote:
> Looks like most of best.* is reaching Deja. Sadly, Deja do not
> save (or make visible) the path header.

> I couldn't find any articles at remarq or supernews but maybe
> someone else can find best.* showing up on another server,
> and post an example with full headers.

That explains why i'm now receiving spam at my quadrunner
account, i've only posted to best.* with this address

Sameer

Re: Best.* is leaking

#31

Author: Kim DeVaughn
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 00:00

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In article <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910061359590.20565-100000@shell15.ba.best.com>,
	Michael <shotgun@best.com> wrote:
|
| Hmm, now that you mention it, over the last couple of days I have also
| notice a large increase in the amount of SPAM. I guess this partially
| explains why that is happening.

Heh.

Speaking of SPAM, and this best.* leak, earlier today (yesterday, really),
I received a lengthy email from an mmf-bot, at the Marshal Space Flight
Center.

Seems it was responding to an mmf email that I'd posted to the best.spam
newsgroup ... :-) ...!

Fortunately, there was a "complaint" address in the bot's message, to
which I replied, explaining the situation WRT the best.* hierarchy leaking,
and asking them to locally rmgroup it from their servers.  Haven't heard
back from them on it though ...

FWIW, here are the headers from my posting to best.spam, as was received
at msfc.nasa.gov:

 Path:news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!feeder.via.net!news1.best.com!news3.best.com!nntp1.ba.best.com!not-for-mail
 From: kimdv@best.com (Kim DeVaughn)
 Newsgroups: best.spam
 Subject: INCREDIBLE $0 to $50,000 in 90 days!!!
 Summary: The only good SPAM is dead SPAM ...!
 Distribution: best
 Organization: Kim's Home for Wayward Cocktail Waitresses & Hors d'oeuvre Girls
 Date: 06 Oct 1999 06:21:38 GMT
 Lines: 208
 Message-ID: <37faea72$0$228@nntp1.ba.best.com>
 NNTP-Posting-Host: shell3.ba.best.com
 X-Trace: nntp1.ba.best.com 939190898 228 kimdv@206.184.139.134

via.net seems to be the common link, alright ...

/kim

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