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From: wunder@hpcea.HP (Walter R. Underwood)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Help - defectoid postings from hplabs!
Message-ID: <2710002@hpcea.HP>
Date: Wed, 21-May-86 13:24:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 21 13:24:57 1986
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> / hpcea:net.news.adm / grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins) /
> 	/  3:52 pm  May  2, 1986 /
> We have recently received dozens of postings, in various groups, aparently
> from an Unknown user at hplabs.  All postings contain zero lines, and also
> seem to have bogus Message-ID lines, ie they look like reference lines.

Why yes, they do look like reference lines, don't they ...

I was teaching Notes to read the reference line and all hell broke loose.
There should be comparatively few messages with multiple message-ID's, but
most of those got out.  The zero-length messages with normal message-ID's
were mostly caught at hplabs before they went out (thanks, Greg).

Some of these messages will have a few garbage characters in the text.
These appear to have been added inside the News code.

You may delete all messages that are "From: hpcea!Unknown" (perhaps
with an at-sign address instead of the banglist, or maybe just
"Unknown").  The presence of "Unknown" in the "From:" line is the only
reliable way to tell which messages are garbage.

My apologies to the news admins across the world.

Walter Underwood
hplabs!hpcea!wunder, or wunder@hplabs.CSNET