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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Dangerous hole in Usenet!
Message-ID: <1988Nov28.202412.1828@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1227@vsi1.UUCP> <1247@vsi1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 88 20:24:12 GMT

In article <1247@vsi1.UUCP> lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes:
>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."

It takes a lot longer than 30 seconds if your mailer doesn't have aliases.
Especially if there is some sort of bureaucratic nonsense associated with
creating new /etc/passwd entries, which can happen.
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