"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:47:23 GMT, raden wrote:


There seem to be a lot of posts purporting to be from the previous
poster in a thread containing weird recipes

Is everybody else getting them, and does anybody know what's going on ?

Late last night, yes, nothing much today.

They appear to be forged headers created by harvesting name details
and injecting messages into appropriately open news servers.

Some ISPs do address range limitations to prevent their news servers
being used by other than their customers, but there are enough open
ones around and this is before getting into use of trojan plants on
legitimate machines being used to relay posts to look legitimate.

I just had a report from, I guess, the moderator of news.karlvalentin.de
that some recipes had been posted appearing to come from my email
address by the following route:

news.karlvalentin.de!news.qymp.de!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!propagator2-sterling.newsfeeds.com!news-in.newsfeeds.com!newsfeed.icl.net!feed.news.tiscal i.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!border2 .nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!lightspee d.eweka.nl!newsfeed.multikabel.nl!feeder.news-service.com!psinet-eu-nl!my.address.left.out.just.in.case!IP
address also left out.mismatch

I don't know if this means anything to anyone. I have the email ID but am
unsure whether it is wise to post it, so haven't.

Someone targetted me once about ten years ago. Very irritating. Sys admin at
the place I worked tried to trace it but I had left it too long because I
was baffled.

Peter Scott