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[Rick Moen]

Eh, drat.  This time, it was entirely my fault -- in the sysadminly
sense, not the I'm-a-spammer sense.  ;->    Once again, this was
spam from the newsgroup side.  (Look at the full headers, if you want to
verify that.)  

News-server policy has been that I'll add your fixed IP address (if you
have one) to the list of those allowed to connect, upon request.  The
relevant /etc/hosts.allow line is currently as follows:

  leafnode: 127.0.0.1 198.144.195.186  66.218.54.163 216.218.255.178

Unfortunately, I screwed up in _not_ creating global-disallow conditions
for other IPs, via a related line in /etc/hosts.deny. 

Connecting from a non-allowed IP before I fixed /etc/hosts.deny:

  rick at alfredo:~$ telnet linuxmafia.com 119
  Trying 198.144.195.186...
  Connected to linuxmafia.COM.
  Escape character is '^]'.
  200 Leafnode NNTP daemon, version 2.0b8_ma9 at linuxmafia.com 
  quit
  205 Always happy to serve!
  Connection closed by foreign host.
  rick at alfredo:~$


Connecting from that same IP _after_ fixing /etc/hosts.deny:

  rick at alfredo:~$ telnet linuxmafia.com 119
  Trying 198.144.195.186...
  Connected to linuxmafia.COM.
  Escape character is '^]'.
  Connection closed by foreign host.
  rick at alfredo:~$ 

Sorry about that, folks.