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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
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Organization: W.L. Kennedy Jr. & Associates, Pipe Creek, TX
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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.
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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