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 Lines: 13 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