Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: [Status] Re: sendsys Message-ID: <9811@g.ms.uky.edu> Date: 30 Jun 88 15:22:53 GMT References: <171@lakart.UUCP>Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 32 In article Bob.Webber@aramis.RUTGERS.EDU writes: >Yes, it is now clear that it was not me who sent out the message. I >am told that the messages were actually fed in at the rutgers gateway >itself via the joys of Eric Fair's nntp. er.. NNTP isn't *just* Erik's ... it's a group project of those California guys. It would have been just as trivial to generate those sendsys messages without NNTP -- MORE trivial even, because wouldn't have to learn the NNTP protocol. Something like "uux - rutgers!rnews" would work for one of the many neighbors of rutgers. Something like "inews -h" would have worked for someone ON rutgers. So what's the point? Why imply that NNTP is evil because it allows such things? >Apparently the backbone takes care of its own. Would you care to explain this? It's probably true to some extent -- in every social grouping there is a certain amount of "us" versus "them" that results in people within the group "taking care of their own". But what does that have to do with this case? The messages could have been made by ANYBODY on the internet -- well, that depends on the Mel's configuration file -- who knows enough about the protocols to make the posting. That lets me out anyway cause I don't know NNTP, we just use it 24 hrs per day is all. :-) -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <---- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- I'm not bad, I'm just coded that way!