Re: Help, is my posting received out there ?

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From: Piet Beertema
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1989 15:56

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	How can anything from Singapore ever reach eunet.test?  It did actually come
	here, but why?  Could somebody explain that?
Because there are still systems/news administrators who don't
really know or are not aware of the implications of what they
are doing. I've seen *all* the eunet.* groups "leak out" to the
USA in the past, through international links that some European
sites have for *internal* communications. I suspect we're seeing
yet another example here. Sigh.

Actually this case is very clear: nixsin is an *unregistered*
uucp site, so user@nixsin.uucp is unroutable. Most likely it
stands for Nixdorf/Singapore; the path in the original article
shows it to be connected to nixpbe, presumably via an internal
line or PSDN. So it must be nixpbe that's leaking out eunet.*
newsgroups to places where they don't belong.

-- 
	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam	(piet@cwi.nl)
	"Money and news ain't what it used to be...."

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcvax!piet

References: <281@nixsin.UUCP> <467.nlhp3@oracle.nl>

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From: piet@cwi.nl (Piet Beertema)
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Subject: Re: Help, is my posting received out there ?
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Date: 4 Aug 89 15:56:49 GMT
References: <281@nixsin.UUCP> <467.nlhp3@oracle.nl>
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Posted: Fri Aug  4 16:56:49 1989

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