Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!pasteur!ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU!fair From: fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: "NNTP has had a number of very bad effects on the net..." Message-ID: <4244@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> Date: 4 Jul 88 00:09:00 GMT References:Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu Organization: USENET Protocol Police, Western Gateway Division Lines: 12 In the referenced article, webber@porthos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) writes: NNTP has had a number of very bad effects on the net, but its security is the most minor of them. Bob, I'd be most interested to read a complete explication of this remark, posted to the net, or Emailed to me; your choice. What are the effects that NNTP has had on the network, and which of them are, in your opinion, bad (and why are they bad?)? curiousity may have killed the cat, but I'm not a cat, Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu