From grosen@dilbert.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu Wed Aug 14 14:27:25 1996 Received: from MIT.EDU ([18.72.1.2]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) with SMTP id OAA01361; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 14:25:19 -0400 Received: from dilbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA22656; Wed, 14 Aug 96 14:21:20 EDT Received: from localhost (grosen@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dilbert.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA14207 for news-answers-request@mit.edu; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 13:17:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Johannes Grosen Message-Id: <199608141817.NAA14207@dilbert.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: URGENT - Mail flood from nodak.edu In-Reply-To: answers@mvmampc66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de's message of Wed, 14 Aug 96 19:20:26 +0200. <199608141720.TAA13576@mvmap66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 14 Aug 96 13:17:00 -0500 X-Mts: smtp > Hi; > > I'm one of the news.answers moderators. > > Apparently, the machine daily-planet.nodak.edu is flooding our > inboxes with everything that's being posted to at least one > *.answers group, misc.aanswers, by stripping the Approved lines > and posting them via UUNET. > > Sample headers attached. > > Please stop this, as soon as possible. > > Thanks a lot > Thomas Koenig > The problem actually was not ours but one of our downstream feeds (pol.org). At any rate, I have been in touch with them and they claim to have fixed the problem. I will continue to monitor and work with them until it is, in fact, cleared up. Thanks for the "heads up". -- John Grosen grosen@plains.nodak.edu Information Technology Services (701) 231-1042 North Dakota State University Fargo, ND USA http://www.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu/servergroup/