Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!gatech!udel!princeton!njin!aramis.rutgers.edu!porthos.rutgers.edu!webber From: webber@porthos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: many, many sendsys replies cut off here Message-ID:Date: 25 Jun 88 15:18:02 GMT References: <16253@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 35 To: bob@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu pleasant@aramis.rutgers.edu In article <16253@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, bob@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes: > > Please don't feel disappointed if Bob Webber doesn't get to personally > read your very own sys file, whether he was the one who asked for it > or not. And I don't want to hear anything about what may, in another > situation, legally amount to reading and discarding other people's > private mail as it tried to transit our system. It was self-defense. > Sue the person who forged the sendsys, not me. Just in case anyone is unclear about it, I have NO objections to people zapping this stuff (although I am collecting what does get thru just to see what it all says). If you find it necessary to look at the contents of the file to feel justified in zapping it, for pete's sake go ahead and look. What I recieve will eventually be read by automatic scripts. If you want to send me mail, for pete's sake don't send thru rutgers!webber (but rather send to rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber which is the address that always appears in my signature -- as far as I know, no one has ever used the rutgers!webber alias for anything, it exists for historical reasons of backward compatibility of mail paths when machines changed names). Also, don't send from an administrative account (mail from root, guest, nobody, etc., is simply being saved off into a file for later processing). So far [est noon sat], I have recieved 2.8 megabytes of mail (which means that a bit under 1 meg compressed) that I have saved as sendsys replies. Presumably that means rutgers has in three days turned about 9 megabytes of mail over this matter (3 in, 3 out to me, 3 back to sender). When Mel gets back, I will doubtless find out what percentage of the normal rutgers load this is. ---- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber) p.s., And I am still quite certain I have never in my life send out any sendsys requests (and I certainly have no plans to do so in the future).