From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Spam through the newsgroup gateway Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:41:11 -0600 Message-ID: <20181025143713895575138@bob.proulx.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540500251 3825 195.159.176.226 (25 Oct 2018 20:44:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:44:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 25 22:44:07 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gFmUB-0000uM-G3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 22:44:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56883 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFmWH-0003vZ-W5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:46:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46874) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFmRg-0007lQ-1R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:41:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFmRb-0003lj-2r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:41:31 -0400 Original-Received: from havoc.proulx.com ([96.88.95.61]:56978) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFmRa-0003ax-SH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:41:26 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by havoc.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A18271057 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:41:11 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A0AD21260 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:41:11 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 709C82DC74; Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:41:11 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 96.88.95.61 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118407 Archived-At: Nuno Silva wrote: > Here I only saw the two recent spam messages in the Gmane group. They > did not appear in the USENET group. I will guess that they were filtered by one of the newsgroups in the mesh of hosts passing news articles around and therefore you didn't see it in your news server. Here is host Path they listed. Therefore looking at any of those host newsgroup servers would have seen the message there. Path: usenet.stanford.edu!e5-v6no2874978qtr.0!news-out.google.com!o27-v6ni12010qtk.1!nntp.google.com!e5-v6no2874964qtr.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail It is also possible that they were posted, then an anti-spam cancel control (possibly an automated cancel-bot) canceled the message from the newsgroup. Meaning that if one reads the newsgroup later in time that the spam will have been removed before it is seen. But it would have already been passed on via the gateway to the mailing list. Just guessing... Bob