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From: webber@porthos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: many, many sendsys replies cut off here
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Date: 25 Jun 88 15:18:02 GMT
References: <16253@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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To: bob@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu pleasant@aramis.rutgers.edu

In article <16253@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, bob@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
> 
> Please don't feel disappointed if Bob Webber doesn't get to personally
> read your very own sys file, whether he was the one who asked for it
> or not.  And I don't want to hear anything about what may, in another
> situation, legally amount to reading and discarding other people's
> private mail as it tried to transit our system.  It was self-defense.
> Sue the person who forged the sendsys, not me.

Just in case anyone is unclear about it, I have NO objections to
people zapping this stuff (although I am collecting what does get thru
just to see what it all says).  If you find it necessary to look at
the contents of the file to feel justified in zapping it, for pete's
sake go ahead and look.  What I recieve will eventually be read by
automatic scripts.  If you want to send me mail, for pete's sake don't
send thru rutgers!webber (but rather send to rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber
which is the address that always appears in my signature -- as far as
I know, no one has ever used the rutgers!webber alias for anything, it
exists for historical reasons of backward compatibility of mail paths
when machines changed names).  Also, don't send from an administrative
account (mail from root, guest, nobody, etc., is simply being saved
off into a file for later processing).

So far [est noon sat], I have recieved 2.8 megabytes of mail (which means that 
a bit under 1 meg compressed) that I have saved as sendsys replies.  Presumably
that means rutgers has in three days turned about 9 megabytes of mail over
this matter (3 in, 3 out to me, 3 back to sender).  When Mel gets back,
I will doubtless find out what percentage of the normal rutgers load this
is.

---- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)

p.s., And I am still quite certain I have never in my life send out
any sendsys requests (and I certainly have no plans to do so in the
future).