[H-GEN] News posting.

[Michael Anthon]

There's a whole bunch of auto responders out there that send a message
to you when you post to a *.test newsgroup, that's probably what you are
seeing.  There is a way to prevent this from happening by putting a
specific word into the subject field, but I can't remember what the word
is.

Regards
Michael Anthon

TAMS Systems

On Wednesday, 6 May 1998 11:19, John Boggon [SMTP:John.B at uq.net.au]
wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>           I post one test message to two newsgroups, uq.test and
alt.test
> and within 24 hours my syslog starts filling with these sorts of
messages.
> 
> May  4 21:09:46 dragon leafnode[1194]: refused connect from
bi4pc.sds.no
> May  4 22:19:30 dragon leafnode[1245]: refused connect from
> dial559.skypoint.net
> May  4 22:42:12 dragon leafnode[1267]: refused connect from
> imk45.mb.Uni-Magdeburg.DE
> May  4 23:56:34 dragon leafnode[1451]: refused connect from
gw.nhnet.org
> May  5 00:00:19 dragon leafnode[1464]: refused connect from
> rhombus.mdm.mke.execpc.com
> May  5 17:09:02 dragon leafnode[931]: refused connect from
> siepc3.grumed.fu-berlin.de
> May  5 18:29:01 dragon leafnode[1047]: refused connect from
> ip106.jeffnet.org
> May  5 20:18:42 dragon leafnode[1173]: refused connect from
> mortens.virtek.no
> May  5 21:47:37 dragon leafnode[1534]: refused connect from
> boromir.matpr.kth.se
> May  5 23:30:09 dragon leafnode[1731]: refused connect from
> 2.p1.usr02.MIA.Icanect.Net
> May  5 23:41:24 dragon leafnode[1745]: refused connect from
> 207-172-197-7.s7.as1.smf.erols.com
> 
> Are these messages attempts from spammers to relay through me or are
they
> normal ?
> 
> Honestly, I have only posted the two messages in about 6 months. Going
back
> through my logs reveals nothing else. Leafnode picks news up from uq
for my
> local system.
> 
> John.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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