Re: Leafnode question
On 11-May-1998, Trevor Barrie <tbarrie@ibm.net> wrote:
> I was running fetch this afternoon, and noticed it was downloading messages
> for a couple of groups I don't read (my system is single-user)... checking the
> "interesting groups" directory found that they were in fact listed. Does
> anybody know what could cause this? I've heard tell of people latching onto
> somebody's system whose security wasn't properly set, but I only have
> an intermittent PPP connection with a variable IP address, so I didn't
> think that could be a problem (how would somebody find my machine?)
Sometimes newsreaders automatically try to read new groups, or
if they have run out of groups they will look through for more
(sometimes trying them all). I've had undesirable behaviour from
nn that means leafnode tries to grab extra groups.
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