Re: [PROPOSAL Mk2] alt.comp.software.thunderbird
"Adam H. Kerman" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.config |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote: >Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>Russ's cron job that processes control messages, feeding them to INN at >>ftp.isc.org, runs every three hours. This is to thwart Hipcrime and >>other denial-of-service attacks with massive numbers of control >>messages. >>That means it takes up to 6 hours to show up in the archives. >The three messages are now on the ftp.isc.org server ... Yes, I see that now, but I'm also checking for updates to the active and newsgroups file, which haven't occurred. If I think of it, I'll look later. There are several News sites that check that the active and newsgroups files were updated because they base their list of syntactically-correct group names on groups that appear in those files, so please don't ask people to start requesting creation of the three groups till the cron job updates those files as well. I assume that will happen in a few hours. The first job validates the control message and group name for archiving. The second job validates only control messages that passed the first syntax checks for a correct newsgroups file line.