On Mon, 12 Jun 1995 14:46:12 CDT James Ford <[log in to unmask]> said: >Question: The apparent NNTP host is "ip113.asiaonline.net". If I put >this node (asiaonline.net) in my filter list will it successfully get >halted? Any way I can ban anything from "asiaonline.net" (headers and/or >message body) from going through my list? No because it's only in the "Path:" line which isn't checked. At least on my side of the ocean this spam was successfully caught. It's only a matter of time until we get a fast backbone in the US and the spam alerts propagate quickly enough that this becomes a thing of the past. Last year 320 nodes left BITNET over the summer, and it will probably be more this year. We're already down to 2096 nodes and the drop outs should significantly reduce BITNET traffic. The 1.8b changes should help as well, and LMail 1.2b will introduce similar changes to further reduce BITNET traffic (I've already written the code, I just wanted to see the impact of 1.8b before releasing more of the same). Hopefully by this fall BITNET traffic will have been halved and things will work better, setting aside the INTERBIT nodes. INTERBIT is another can of worms, but this fall we should have enough TCP/IP servers to stop using BITNET servers for distributions if it gets in the way of good service. Eric