Re: news.dizum.net is peering google groups spam

[Anonymous]

In article <ukqkpi$3gesa$1...@novabbs.org>
Patrick <pat...@oleary.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 19:14:11 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:
> >> Can someone who knows the admin at the news.dizum.net news server please
> >> let him know that he's peering all that spam coming out of Google
> >> Groups.
> >
> > Are you seeing 'news.dizum.net!news-out.google.com!...' in any headers? I
> > have not seen it, but of course I don't read 100,000 headers per day.
> >
> > If you are just seeing news.dizum.net in the Path, but not right before
> > google, then it's just passing messages along, like other servers. Unless
> > you are doing your own filtering on your server, you will most likely pass
> > the spam to your peers. Applying NoCeM won't change that.
>
> You're right. I'm wrong. I'm sorry for bashing the dizum service.
>
> I didn't look closely enough at the path header.
>
> I had only looked at the penultimate item on the left instead of at the
> first server that peered with the google spam servers on the right.
>
> That server which peered the google spam servers is highwinds-media.com.
> Sorry for bashing dizum. I apologize for misreading the path header.

We don't have to worry about it now. Dizum is dead thanks to you.

On 10 Dec 2023, anon <nor...@mixmin.net> posted some news:20231211.035...@mixmin.net:
Re: dizum is gone.

> .---.
> '-. | | .-'
> ___|R |___
> -= [ DIZUM ] =-
> `---.P .---'
> __||__ | | __||__
> '-..-' | | '-..-'
> || | | ||
> ||_.-| |-,_||
> .-"` `"`'` `"-.
> .' '.
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