Don wrote:
Grant wrote:There's one more thing - dizum is a remailer. And, although it offers a >mail2news gateway, it is not a news host.
Patrick wrote:Yes! ROTFL.
The news.dizum.net admin is peering all of that Google spam.Remember, the choice to carry a feed or not is up to each news server
Whoever that server admin is, he needs to get a knock at his door.
administrator.
This applies to all server administrators.
If one server administrator wants to carry news from a spammy source,
that's their prerogative just like it's other news administrators
prerogative if they want to carry news from the previous news administrator.
I find it entertaining how quickly I've seen things progress along the
line from "YOU CAN'T FILTER" to "complain to the admin that isn't
filtering (Google)".
dizum has an anonymity agenda. Although YMMV, an excerpt of pertinent
dizum headers tells /me/ everything there is to know about dizum:
Path: sewer!news.dizum.net!not-for-mail
Organization: dizum.com - The Internet Problem Provider
Injection-Info: sewer.dizum.com
Besides dizum, many other news hosts also peer with google-groups.
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On another note, a change in my own news host's pseudo peers now
provides a proper Path: to implement Stephane's suggestion:
$BADPATHS=google-groups.googlegroups.com
ME/$BADPATHS:::
Danke,
The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
Do what is right and depeer Google Groups now!
All peerings with Google will end on 2024-02-22:
https://support.google.com/groups?p=usenet
In news.software.nntp Heiko Schlichting <heiko@cis.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
All peerings with Google will end on 2024-02-22:
https://support.google.com/groups?p=usenet
Done.
Confirmed here (news.chmurka.net). What a relief.
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