X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-ID: <3C2F8295.3C524729@yahoo.com> From: CBFalconer Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: VACATION PACKAGE FOR =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=C3O?= PAULO - BRAZIL References: <200112300612 DOT fBU6C5N31090 AT delorie DOT com> <3C2EC967 DOT 7BD07ADA AT yahoo DOT com> <200112301823 DOT fBUINr908295 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 34 Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:49:33 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.90.170.96 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT worldnet DOT att DOT net X-Trace: bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1009748973 12.90.170.96 (Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:49:33 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:49:33 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ Delorie wrote: > > > I see the following line in the headers: > > > > X-Authentication-Warning: > > delorie.com: mailnull set sender to > > djgpp-bounces using -f > > > > does that mean that the mailing list/newsgroup has filtered this > > idiot out, so that there is no point in making complaints to the > > originator? > > The lines you want to look for are the DJ-Gateway headers. If you see > one, that indicates the origin (mail or news) of the message. Given > that, you can tell which headers to pay attention to and which to > ignore because they come from the gateway itself. Which says mailing list. Too late, because I already shipped an abuse to mv.com. There was another one too. In general, can we assume you will do all the complaining necessary for any of this crap? > > The authentication warning just means I need to tweak my server, > that's all. I updated the mailer but not the ruleset. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com) (cbfalconer AT XXXXworldnet DOT att DOT net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. (Remove "XXXX" from reply address. yahoo works unmodified) mailto:uce AT ftc DOT gov (for spambots to harvest)