Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Dangerous hole in Usenet!
Message-ID: <7067@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 3 Dec 88 20:19:13 GMT
References: <1227@vsi1.UUCP> <1247@vsi1.UUCP> <13200@ncoast.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <13200@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:

>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.

With the sysV versions of mail I have seen,
LOGNAME=news mail host!user