🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <jim-2405951655280001@borg.ucc.american.edu>, I wrote:
> We are at this point considering our options. We are looking into moving
> the gateways to a unix machine and both suppressing the appending of our
> domain name to incorrect addresses, as well as pointing back to the
> original poster or the list in the Return-Path field. Our only other
> alternative will be to stop providing the gateway service. Lists which
> cannot find an alternative gateway site would then have their associated
> newsgroups rmgroup'ed. We recognize this may effectively close down the
> bit.* hierarchy so we would prefer to get the first solution -- that of
> masking the gateway's address -- working.

We have started work to implement the following:

*  The delay on the feed from our news server to the gateway has been
increased from one hour to three hours. This will delay posts, but
since most spams are cancelled fairly quickly it will stop most spams
before they get to the gateway and are distributed to the mailing lists.

*   We will implement a check on incoming articles. If the same article
appears more than ten times in a two hour period we will consider it a
spam and will not feed it to the gateway.

Jim McIntosh (jim@american.edu)
The American University
Washington, DC USA 20016-8019