On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 03:46:43PM +0200, Frederik Meerwaldt wrote:
> 
> Because of the /bin/bash it doesn't have to be a Linux
> installation. IF the machine has been hacked, it won't make sense to send
> a mail to root@www.cosmic.com. Perhaps try reaching the abuse account of
> his upstream provider? But what I expect is, that somebody (perhaps the
> owner of this machine) wanted to open a news gateway to the port-vax list.
> 
> Hello?! Admin of this list? Please block emails from news@cosmic.com, or
> make this list private. Thanks

Actually these empty messages were the result of a misconfigured mail->news
gateway. The admin of this gateway already send a mail about this saying
he was very sorry, and that the problem was solved. No need to take
further action.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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