on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 04:28:01PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > I've just noted a slew of posts to debian-user in German. All have an > X-Envelope-Sender header pointing to news@einstein.holzland.thur.de. It > appears someone's set up a news => mail gateway on this box pointing > into debian-user. I count 49 messages currently. I've been asked how I traced the information on this and/or worked out what was going on. /me places hat on table. The first hint was that messages were all in German, though they appeared to be directed to a number of different mail and news lists. My suspicions were that a gateway might be misconfigured (intentionally or otherwise). A quick scan of headers showed a consistent X-envelope-sender immediately prior to murphy.debian.org (the Debian mailinglist server) of news@einstein.holzland.thur.de. Since murphy is the source of all things debian-user, a consistent upstream source is the likely suspect of any odd happenings on list. I ran a command-line 'whois' on premutations of the name, hitting gold on 'thur.de', coming up with a contact list that I included in my earlier email. The listmaster@debian.org address is listed on the main Debian mailing lists page. Now where'd I put that rabbit? -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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