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From: jbuck@epicen.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: c*nc*l <148@psueea.UUCP> and many others
Message-ID: <256@epicen.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 20:54:49 EST
Article-I.D.: epicen.256
Posted: Sat Nov 2 20:54:49 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 13-Nov-85 07:25:35 EST
References: <134@desint.UUCP> <5667@amdcad.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbuck@epicen.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Distribution: net
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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Summary: oliveb probably isn't guilty
In article <5667@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>The fact that it was being done at oliveb was quite obvious after
>the first three articles. I looked at the path and I knew oliveb didn't
>have that many connections.
No, Phil. It could have been done by a system administrator at a machine
with a connection to oliveb. The guilty party could have changed his/her
system name to match that of the article s/he wanted to cancel, then call
oliveb (or any other site that doesn't have the NOSTRANGERS feature of some
of the newer UUCP's). oliveb would have accepted the name and host as being
authentic. There are easier ways to do the trick as well (but I'm not
eager to tell non-system administrators how to do it).
--
Joe Buck | Entropic Processing, Inc.
UUCP: {ucbvax,ihnp4}!dual!epicen!jbuck | 10011 N. Foothill Blvd.
ARPA: dual!epicen!jbuck@BERKELEY.ARPA | Cupertino, CA 95014