[SC-Help] Re: Loads of spam showing "Delviery Status Notification", "Failure Notice" etc.

[Mike Easter]

Ant wrote:

> What's with this webtv deal anyway? I thought the only way of
> accessing these groups was by nntp direct to the server, or through
> the mailing list.

We would have to hear from a webtv user about how their news works
exactly, and perhaps from a news admin about how there's a
news.spamcop.net feed with the webtv news gizmo..

I think that it is a little bit like the old AOL news system, in which
AOL had their own news 'gizmo' with its own proprietary interface for
AOLers and that it would propagate in and out of usenet at large for
those newsgroups which AOL chose to provide.

But the webtv is not exactly like the AOL system, because I don't think
it propagates to the larger usenet [or maybe some does and some
doesn't].  There are a 'bunch' of webtv groups, such as those
alt.discuss listed here
http://www.wtv-zone.com/bluefox/yellow_pages.html  The Official
Unofficial Yellow Pages For WebTV News Groups

The webtv spamcop groups are called news.spamcop.* where * = <nil>,
geeks, social, & spam

So, maybe there's a webtv 'newsserver' accessible to webtv/ers or
perhaps with a proprietary interface and it handles some usenet, some
private/public newsservers and some webtv only groups.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin