Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!nyser!njin!aramis.rutgers.edu!Bob.Webber@aramis.RUTGERS.EDU From: Bob.Webber@aramis.RUTGERS.EDU Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: [Status] Re: sendsys Message-ID:Date: 30 Jun 88 07:45:08 GMT References: <171@lakart.UUCP> Sender: webber@aramis.rutgers.edu Lines: 18 In article <171@lakart.UUCP>, dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes: > I think the results of the sendsys at lakart tend to suggest that Mr. > Webber was not responsible. ... > Now if only the sendsys requests were still around, I could look at > them and start figuring where they did come from. 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. The 11 megabytes of email this generated for non-rutgers sites (roughly 4 megabytes of sendsys turned into 7 megabytes of sendsys plus address update message -- said 7 megabytes being sent back to the original send plus an additional 7 megabytes internally forwarded from rutgers to me on the aramis/athos/porthos complex) plus whatever messages got lost in the ether were apparently a ``prank.'' Boys will be boys and all that. Apparently the backbone takes care of its own. ---- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)