[Sheflug] [OT] Blueyonder Usenet issues - UDP issued

["Chris J" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all --

Apologies for the OT, but I don't know how many people here are on BY
and use Usenet :)

Blueyonder have been issued with a Usenet Death Penalty (UDP) which means 
posts from news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk (aka news.blueyonder.co.uk) won't 
be propagated out to the rest of Usenet. This has been issued due to the 
amount of spam originating from the server.

Posts via news-text and news-lhr should be unaffected; so you might need to 
fiddle your account settings if you want any posts to be seen outside the
BY network :) No idea how long the UDP will remain in place. Days to weeks, 
depending on BY's news peers.

Incoming news should be unaffected - only news going out via news-binary.

If you want to read more ...
	UDP FAQ is at: http://www.stopspam.org/usenet/faqs/udp.html
	The UDP proposal: http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y2DE126D
	The notice of enforcement: http://makeashorterlink.com/?W282127D

Lots of threads in blueyonder.feedback, blueyonder.discussion.usenet and 
blueyonder.support.usenet about it.

Chris...

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