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February 1997, Week 2

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Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
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Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 9 Feb 1997 13:59:16 -0500
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The "ADULTS ONLY" spam came through the netnews gateway to HP3000-L.  It
was spammed to hundreds of newsgroups.  Many of the articles were
canceled by the news.admin.net-abuse "anti-spam-bots" but unfortunately
too late to catch the article before it went through the gateway.

As stated some weeks ago, the netnews gateway has changed such that I
can no longer trap messages from there for moderation.  So my best
advise is to delete and ignore it and hope this isn't the start of a
trend (this one was forged particularly well to avoid the usual
detection methods).

At any rate, the proper authorities at the originating sites have been
notified -- this was a *very* widespread spam (DejaNews reports 6345
articles simply "following up" on the original posts which were
cancelled).

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
wearing HP3000-L Listowner hat

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