[wp-hackers] Double Postings? Am I seeing double?

[Les Bessant]

>> Suspicously all the "double postings" have the following in them:
>>
>> - -------------------- m2f --------------------
>>
>> <snip what="junk">
>>
>> - -------------------- m2f --------------------
>>
>> And come from the same server - http://wpg2.ozgreg.com/forums/
>>
>> Someone is reposting posts back to the lists!
>>
>> Thankfully it seems to have stopped
>
>Given the sporadic lag in between such posts, it would be wise to assume
>this was spam. It forged senders' addresses to get past moderation and used
>identical content for  disguise. The forger was not even wise enough to
>strip off the appended footer. It must the price of having decent PageRank
>in the archives.
>
>Roy

Given that they came in a burst, I'd say it was much more likely that a
misconfigured, or temporarily malfunctioning mail server remailed them. I've
seen this happen a lot when a server is used to collect mail from a POP
account. Server sees that the message is addressed to an address that's not
on its domain (the list address in this case) and "helpfully" sends it out
again.

Often happens with a badly set up Microsoft Small Business Server. It's
great fun when the original recipients of a mailing get hundreds of copies
of the same message.

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