Hmm, I see none of these on mail.python.org which gates
comp.lang.python and comp.lang.python.announce (in both directions).
Python's nntplib doesn't appear to create any temp files, so I don't
think it's coming from there, and I'm /sure/ Mailman doesn't create
any temp files.
Is your usenet software on the same machine as Mailman? Could those
files be created by your news s/w? Who is the user and group owner of
those files?
-Barry
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 389120 Feb 27 18:01 filezSQFHI
But your question is valid, and I hadn't thoughtof it. The gatewaying stuff I have left in the mailman crontab and there's not anyway it should be able to create those files as 'root', unless the wrapper's doing it.
In any event, I have no idea what's causing this. As for 'usenet software' I'm not using anything but the gatewaying software. The usenet server's not on the same machine, it's at a different ISP...and again, like I said, each of those files is specifically a file full of each usenet posting that I have gatewayed.
I'm stumped.