I did an AltaVista search for "luzskru" and found it on a list of known open NNTP sites. They're almost certainly blameless. The list, btw, is http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~jwa/open-sites.html Cc'd to the guy who generates that list. In case he doesn't know, cypherpunks is browseable at news://nntp.hks.net/hks.lists.cypherpunks -rich