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

"Mike Easter" wrote:

> Ant wrote:
>> 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.
>
> We would have to hear from a webtv user about how their news works
> exactly,

I reckon there's a high probability they wouldn't know anything beyond
the user interface.

> and perhaps from a news admin about how there's a
> news.spamcop.net feed with the webtv news gizmo..

It's possible that there is no special arrangement. The software
might send a post from the local webtv group when it gets one from a
webtv-er; then it may scrape the real spamcop group for new articles
at regular intervals, much like a human would do with his/her news
agent.

> There are a 'bunch' of webtv groups, such as those
> alt.discuss listed here
> http://www.wtv-zone.com/bluefox/yellow_pages.html  The Official
> Unofficial Yellow Pages For WebTV News Groups
>
> The webtv spamcop groups are called news.spamcop.* where * = <nil>,
> geeks, social, & spam

I couldn't find the spamcop groups by way of that link.

> So, maybe there's a webtv 'newsserver' accessible to webtv/ers or
> perhaps with a proprietary interface and it handles some usenet, some
> private/public newsservers and some webtv only groups.

For sure.