Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!hc!lll-winken!abhg!carpet!bill From: bill@carpet.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Sendsys fiasco Keywords: Webber net abuse Message-ID: <106@carpet.WLK.COM> Date: 22 Jun 88 04:52:09 GMT Distribution: na Organization: W.L. Kennedy Jr. & Associates, Pipe Creek, TX Lines: 45 I am irritated by something that happened today as I am sure other news administrators were. I hope that I have not added to the flood if there is one. I recall something similar about a portal user. I got three sendsys messages: Path: ssbn!killer!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!rutgers!webber >From: webber@rutgers.edu (Net.Rarebit) Newsgroups: news.admin.ctl Subject: sendsys Message-ID:Date: 20 Jun 88 22:20:20 GMT Control: sendsys Organization: Pain in the Ass, Inc. Lines: 0 The others are identical, I'll just show the Path: and Message-ID: \'s added Path: ssbn!killer!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!husc6!uwvax! \ dogie!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!ucsd!sdcsvax!rutgers!webber Message-ID: Path: ssbn!killer!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!husc6!bbn! \ uwmcsd1!ig!agate!pasteur!ames!rutgers!webber Message-ID: And my system dutifully complied. I caught the last two before they were actually sent, but the first one did go. This is malicious mischief and the perpetrator should be severely punished. Someone suggested that "net.rarebit" was a forgery and if it is, it's intended to flood Bob Webber's mailbox, punishable malicious mischief. Anyone who knows enough to do it knows better. I am of the opinion that it is not a forgery, that it _is_ Bob Webber and he has certainly been around long enough to know better, intentional malicious mischief. He should be punished, by his news administrator, not the net. The sendsys that did go out from ssbn was miniscule, but if you think about a site with a big sys file, all of the sites who got it, three times, I think it's a gross abuse of net privileges. I was less irritated before I read the control messages. This person needs a news administrator to land on them and soon. -- Bill Kennedy Internet: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM Usenet: { killer | att-cb | ihnp4!tness7 }!ssbn!bill