Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!david
From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: [Status] Re: sendsys
Message-ID: <9811@g.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 88 15:22:53 GMT
References: <171@lakart.UUCP> 
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article  Bob.Webber@aramis.RUTGERS.EDU writes:
>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.

er..  NNTP isn't *just* Erik's ... it's a group project of those
California guys.

It would have been just as trivial to generate those sendsys messages
without NNTP -- MORE trivial even, because wouldn't have to learn
the NNTP protocol.  Something like "uux - rutgers!rnews" would work
for one of the many neighbors of rutgers.  Something like "inews -h"
would have worked for someone ON rutgers.  So what's the point?  Why
imply that NNTP is evil because it allows such things?

>Apparently the backbone takes care of its own.

Would you care to explain this?

It's probably true to some extent -- in every social grouping there
is a certain amount of "us" versus "them" that results in people within
the group "taking care of their own".  But what does that have to do
with this case?  The messages could have been made by ANYBODY on the
internet -- well, that depends on the Mel's configuration file -- who
knows enough about the protocols to make the posting.  That lets me
out anyway cause I don't know NNTP, we just use it 24 hrs per day
is all. :-)
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