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The issue of Spam in 98 General
I noticed how a lot of are spam recently seems to be coming from the Windows
98 banter newsgroup. I wonder why that is and does anyone know why it is particularly just mainly from this newsgroup recently? |
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The issue of Spam in 98 General
"Dan" wrote in message
... I noticed how a lot of are spam recently seems to be coming from the Windows 98 banter newsgroup. I wonder why that is and does anyone know why it is particularly just mainly from this newsgroup recently? Number and type of recent spam in this NG seems much the same as in other MS public NGs e.g. for WinXP. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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The issue of Spam in 98 General
Don Phillipson wrote:
"Dan" wrote in message I noticed how a lot of are spam recently seems to be coming from the Windows 98 banter newsgroup. You mean the "Windows 98 Banter" server. I wonder why that is and does anyone know why it is particularly just mainly from this newsgroup recently? Number and type of recent spam in this NG seems much the same as in other MS public NGs e.g. for WinXP. The spam you see here (or don't see here) is a function of how well the server you are using can filter it. I see very little of the spam you people are talking about, because the AIOE server is running software that is looking for and killing the spam. The only time I see spam is when someone else replies to it to make some inane comment or warning to the sender. |
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The issue of Spam in 98 General
Yes that is what I meant and thank you for the response and correction 98 Guy
and you too of course Don. "98 Guy" wrote: Don Phillipson wrote: "Dan" wrote in message I noticed how a lot of are spam recently seems to be coming from the Windows 98 banter newsgroup. You mean the "Windows 98 Banter" server. I wonder why that is and does anyone know why it is particularly just mainly from this newsgroup recently? Number and type of recent spam in this NG seems much the same as in other MS public NGs e.g. for WinXP. The spam you see here (or don't see here) is a function of how well the server you are using can filter it. I see very little of the spam you people are talking about, because the AIOE server is running software that is looking for and killing the spam. The only time I see spam is when someone else replies to it to make some inane comment or warning to the sender. |
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The issue of Spam in 98 General
Dan wrote:
I noticed how a lot of are spam recently seems to be coming from the Windows 98 banter newsgroup. Upon more examination, it seems that win98banter allows people to post to usenet (perhaps only to certain microsoft.* groups) and it does it via Microsoft's own servers. In all such cases, you will see the machine "mrstrans" in the path. The machine's full name is msrtrans.research.microsoft.com (131.107.151.145 - which apparently has no rDNS). This page: http://www.securityoffice.net/mssecr...31-107-65.html identifies mrstrans as a general purpose server (ftp, SMTP, NNTP, etc). The administrators of the Microsoft usenet servers should be made aware of the abuse of their mrstrans machine by those accessing it from the win98banter.com web interface. |
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