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> What is up with vger? I have received over 80 messages over night and
> many of the postings were from a select few people repeated 8-10 times
> with the exact same messages.
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> Is someone playing a practical joke on me or is this a general problem?
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> | Greg Patterson | EMAIL: root@gomer.mlink.net |
> | | gomer@mlink.net |
> | Move over Microsoft, | IRC: Wizird (#Linux) |
> | Linux is here to stay. | WWW: http://gomer.mlink.net/~root |
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I got _that_ message _twice_ ... and a lot of others too many times ...
headers for that message were like:
Received: from nic.funet.fi (nic.funet.fi [128.214.248.6]) by mail.xgw.fi
(8.6.11/8.6.4) with ESMTP id UAA27544 for <tbittih@xgw.fi>; Tue, 18 Feb 1997
20:47:18 +0200
Received: from vger.rutgers.edu ([128.6.190.2]) by nic.funet.fi with ESMTP
id
<74297-27144>; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 19:25:33 +0200
Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <213440-4798>; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:10:31
-0500
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 08:19:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Greg Patterson <root@gomer.mlink.net>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing-list <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Subject: What are you doing, VGER? [OFF TOPIC]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970218081627.189A-100000@gomer.mlink.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Precedence: bulk
Received: from nic.funet.fi (nic.funet.fi [128.214.248.6]) by mail.xgw.fi
(8.6.11/8.6.4) with ESMTP id QAA25929 for <tbittih@xgw.fi>; Tue, 18 Feb 1997
16:33:48 +0200
Received: from vger.rutgers.edu ([128.6.190.2]) by nic.funet.fi with ESMTP
id
<55662-17122>; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:23:27 +0200
Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <213026-4798>; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 08:11:41
-0500
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 08:19:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Greg Patterson <root@gomer.mlink.net>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing-list <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Subject: What are you doing, VGER? [OFF TOPIC]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970218081627.189A-100000@gomer.mlink.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Precedence: bulk
... so anyone have any idea on what might be happening?