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Hm, Is it over?



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Well, Someones reading our posts as there is a header of [WEATHER] now!

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In article ,
"Wijke" wrote:

"Simon Gardner" [dot]co[dot]uk schreef in bericht
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In article ,
"Gary \(Torquay\)" wrote:

Is it me or did we just receive a HELL of a lot of spam!????


Over 950 items so far.

I expect we aren't going to be the only ones.


No, you're not we are we gonna do about this??


[About 6355 and counting...] No idea.


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Gary (Torquay) wrote:
Well, Someones reading our posts as there is a header of [WEATHER]
now!

Gary


They've also reduced the message to 20 lines too - this is looking
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Gary (Torquay) wrote:
Well, Someones reading our posts as there is a header of [WEATHER]
now!

Gary


They've also reduced the message to 20 lines too - this is looking
malicious now.


Name your suspect...




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In article ,
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Simon Gardner wrote:

Now over 1500...


I've just waded through 5000 posts (


7,050 - approximately and still coming. Fancy a wager on the final?


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I'm still getting about 20 every 5 minutes or so.

Using OE with BT Broadband connection, and bt internet news server.

Its weird, some of the subject lines start [WR], which suggests to me that
it maybe corrupting some incoming legitimate postings.

Ho hum ....

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Hm, Is it over?




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Nath wrote:

Its weird, some of the subject lines start [WR], which suggests to me
that it maybe corrupting some incoming legitimate postings.


No. It's a directed attack.


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Nath wrote:
I'm still getting about 20 every 5 minutes or so.

Using OE with BT Broadband connection, and bt internet news server.

Its weird, some of the subject lines start [WR], which suggests to me
that it maybe corrupting some incoming legitimate postings.

Ho hum ....


Nope - whoever it is is using [WR] and [WEATHER]


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Agreed.

Someone obviously didnt get their snow this morning ;-)

All seems to have stopped now.

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Nath wrote:
I'm still getting about 20 every 5 minutes or so.

Using OE with BT Broadband connection, and bt internet news server.

Its weird, some of the subject lines start [WR], which suggests to me
that it maybe corrupting some incoming legitimate postings.

Ho hum ....


Nope - whoever it is is using [WR] and [WEATHER]






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