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From: Bob.Webber@aramis.RUTGERS.EDU
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: [Status] Re: sendsys
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Date: 30 Jun 88 07:45:08 GMT
References: <171@lakart.UUCP>
Sender: webber@aramis.rutgers.edu
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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)