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In article <sfpYsCA77xF5EAxh@dtn.ntl.com>, Neil Swann
<neil.swann@dtn.ntl.com> writes
>A ng my wife subscribes to has been inundated with messages containing
>nothing but groups of letters which make no sense. This has been going
>on for some time and some subscribers have reported 1,000's of posts of
>a similar type. 
<snip>

>however I now find I am in receipt of 7
>e-mails addressed to postmaster@dtn.ntl.com from Turnpike_NNTP_Client@dt
>n.ntl.com full of this crap with different message senders. I e-mailed
>the relevant abuse@ but wondered if anyone has any advice on how best to
>prevent being inundated with this crap. 


Have these got a subject of "Article Disposition Notice". If so, these
aren't e-mails but orphaned usenet articles. This is the way Turnpike
deals with News articles downloaded from a group it doesn't recognize or
to which you are not subscribed, possibly if you collect a whole thread
which got posted to your subscribed group after the thread started. Note
that they come from your account dtn.ntl.com. If you are not subscribed
to any of the newsgroups to which the articles were posted, Turnpike
dumps them in your mailbox because it has nowhere else to put them.
This has only happened since Turnpike 4.0.  Earlier versions just binned
them.

It sounds like your wife's group is being attacked using a variant of
Hipcrime/Newsagent. Using a custom kill rule of /Supersedes/h may stop
most of it being downloaded. Best place to try for advice on filtering
would be demon.ip.support.turnpike if you can get it at your ISP.

-- 
Hugh Simmons