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

"Mike Easter" wrote:

> 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.

What's with this webtv deal anyway? I thought the only way of
accessing these groups was by nntp direct to the server, or through
the mailing list.

> Nothing you post in reply is likely to ever propagate back to the GG
> place where the OP posted from or is reading.

That's what I thought, and indeed there are no replies to the OP on
Google. Too bad -- I'm not going there.

> It is something like an
> unstable wormhole vis some TV show I forget the name of just now.

The Outer Limits? Although probably that series was made before the
concept of wormholes came about.