17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Wed, 18 Oct 1995, David Neal wrote:
YIKES! Think again. Many of the *.test newsgroups have auto-responders that remail the poster assuring them their post was received. This feature is used to make sure your newsfeed is working.
Yeah, but you can turn them off by having "Test" in your header. I disovered this after getting my mailbox filled with those bloody auto-responses. It isn't really important since you're posting your file encrypted a second time in the first remailer's key, so the received file will bear no resemblance to the original. And as far as wasting a lot of bandwidth is concerned, it would never be worse than the alt.binaries newsgroups.