Re: Loads of spam showing "Delviery Status Notification", "Failure Notice" etc.

"Mike Easter" <[email protected]> Sun, 16 Apr 2006 19:58:50 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamcop.help
Organization SpamCop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ant wrote:
> Rowan's post came from Google Groups and ended up here via webtv.
> Does news.spamcop.net have new peering arrangements?

No.  That 'route' is an unreliable 'back channel' accidental non-peering
'funky' way for an item to sometimes be able to be posted from GG and
'magically' propagate into the 'actual' non-peering news.spamcop.net
newsserver.

Nothing you post in reply is likely to ever propagate back to the GG
place where the OP posted from or is reading.  It is something like an
unstable wormhole vis some TV show I forget the name of just now.

> I thought GG
> posts never made it to the nntp server.

Almost never.  Occasionally thru' the webtv unstable wormhole.

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Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin