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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Dangerous hole in Usenet!
Message-ID: <13200@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 3 Dec 88 00:05:49 GMT
References: <1227@vsi1.UUCP> <1247@vsi1.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: news.admin
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
Lines: 18
As quoted from <1247@vsi1.UUCP> by lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair):
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| One thing that bugs the hell out of me: it takes about 30 seconds to create
| a mail alias, but a lot of supposed administrators sent me mail like, "Gee,
| we don't have a 'news' user here."
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Your posting said that you would respond only to mail sent BY the user
"news". Aliases don't help with that; you have to log in as "news" to get
that name as the sender, modulo uucp or smtp forgery.
++Brandon
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