As I understand it, on Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:15:35 +0000, Keith Dancey
reported this:

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Who was this addressed to, Anne? Original article not available on my
server (yet). Number of spammed articles now over 10,000.


Anyone swamped by this may try:

Killfile on Header and string set to " for example.



Either zen have successfully bunged in a filter, or he/she has stopped to
watch 'Murder She Wrote'.

Lucky Philip!

Originating IP address of denial-of-service attack on u.s.w is
24.186.189.211

This is, on the face of it, a Cablevision Systems proxy server, which
agrees with the Abuse address "

It's possible the headers aer forgeries.
http://www.geocities.com/hcfaq/

FYI, these are Hipcrime bots flooding the newsgroup.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HipcrimeFloods

Who is Hipcrime?
http://www.killfile.org/dungeon/why/hipcrime.html