[Remops] EMP Filters and Me

[Bananasplit Admin]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:10:34AM -0400, drsnoid wrote:

> By the time it was all said and done there were two which appeared on other
> servers but not mixmin, both from Frell:
> 
> Subject: huge 3 test frell post
> Message-ID: <fbb1d49fce9d870f4d3eb062fd3a3697 at msgid.frell.theremailer.net>

news at drooper:~$ telnet localhost 119
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to news.mixmin.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 news.mixmin.net InterNetNews server INN 2.5.0 (20090306 snapshot)
ready
mode reader
200 news.mixmin.net InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.5.0 (20090306
snapshot) ready (posting ok)
head <fbb1d49fce9d870f4d3eb062fd3a3697 at msgid.frell.theremailer.net>
221 0 <fbb1d49fce9d870f4d3eb062fd3a3697 at msgid.frell.theremailer.net>
head
Path:
news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.theremailer.net!frell.theremailer.net!anonymous
From: Fritz Wuehler
<fritz at spamexpire-200901.rodent.frell.theremailer.net>
Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender address above.
        It was remailed automatically by anonymizing remailer software.
        Please report problems or inappropriate use to the
        remailer administrator at <abuse at frell.theremailer.net>.
        Identifying the real sender is technically impossible.
Newsgroups: alt.testing.testing
Subject: huge 3 test frell post
Message-ID:
<fbb1d49fce9d870f4d3eb062fd3a3697 at msgid.frell.theremailer.net>
Precedence: anon
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:44:13 +0100
Mail-To-News-Contact: abuse at frell.theremailer.net
Organization: Frell Anonymous Remailer
Xref: news.mixmin.net alt.testing.testing:3081

> Subject: huge 3 test frell banana
> Message-ID: <0a40ea08f1ed06ea26b16a5b38b754f9 at msgid.frell.theremailer.net>

head <0a40ea08f1ed06ea26b16a5b38b754f9 at msgid.frell.theremailer.net>
221 0 <0a40ea08f1ed06ea26b16a5b38b754f9 at msgid.frell.theremailer.net>
head
Path: news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.bananasplit.info!mail2news
From: Fritz Wuehler
<fritz at spamexpire-200901.rodent.frell.theremailer.net>
Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender address above.
        It was remailed automatically by anonymizing remailer software.
        Please report problems or inappropriate use to the
        remailer administrator at <abuse at frell.theremailer.net>.
        Identifying the real sender is technically impossible.
Newsgroups: alt.testing.testing
Subject: huge 3 test frell banana
Message-ID:
<0a40ea08f1ed06ea26b16a5b38b754f9 at msgid.frell.theremailer.net>
Precedence: anon
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:40:21 +0100
X-Abuse-Contact: abuse at bananasplit.info
Organization: Bananasplit - Mail2News
Xref: news.mixmin.net alt.testing.testing:3074

Both of these did make it to Mixmin from Frell and are still available.

> The day before yesterday I devised a way of inserting my own special brand
> of random garbage into the message bodies and made another run, which seems
> to have alleviated the problem.  Some new results should be along shortly!

Lets wait and see how that goes.  For the previous tests my news logs
don't go back far enough to provide any insight into what the problem
might have been.

> But it all makes me wonder what changed on such a system-wide basis.  Never
> use to be a problem, then suddenly ZAP, no matter which mail2news, exit
> remailer, or news server my messages seemed unwelcome.

Your messages are always welcome on my services.  :)

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