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(...) What do you think? :) for reference, here's the headers of the msg I replied to: X-Loop: lugnet.org.ca.rtltor...lugnet.com X-Message-Archive: (URL) From: "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> X-Real-Life-Name: Larry Pieniazek Errors-To: (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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See this post: (URL) note where FUT is set. Then see the two posts below it in the thread. One honors the FUT and one (by Dan, who I can't imagine would actually make a mistake) doesn't. Do we have a small bug here somewhere or was the FUT set wrong (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Additionally (assuming that port 119 is permanently turned off) it would be a good idea to change "Setting up a newsreader" in (URL) de-emphasize port 119 and possibly provide links for how to use a non-default nntp port in various newsreaders (...) (23 years ago, 2-Oct-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) So THAT's what was going on! I got over 2200 .swen virus emails in the 10 days or so preceding the closing of that port, and then, as you mentioned, they stopped like a switch had been flipped. Thanks so much for fixing that, Todd! Adrian (23 years ago, 2-Oct-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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I believe the recent "distributed denial of service attack" was SWEN. I was getting copies of that from all over the world to my lugnews address, and only to my lugnews address, until you moved ports. That shut off the incoming viri like a switch. I (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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