Xref: utzoo news.admin:4090 news.sysadmin:1699 comp.mail.uucp:2368 Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp Path: utzoo!henry 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. -- SunOSish, adj: requiring | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 32-bit bug numbers. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu