Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!ncc!lyndon From: lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Net userid forgery Message-ID: <436@ncc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 16:19:19 EST Article-I.D.: ncc.436 Posted: Thu Nov 26 16:19:19 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 17:15:18 EST References: <1574@bsu-cs.UUCP> <7535@elsie.UUCP> Organization: Nexus Computing Inc. Lines: 11 Summary: Silly ass-umptions Xref: mnetor news.admin:1438 news.sysadmin:501 > Nope. If a user is going to be on a system for such a short time that they > don't warrant their own account, they're not going to have the time to > read the netiquette document and learn when it is and isn't appropriate to > post articles. This makes some very broad assumptions about guest users. We have a number of guest users spread across three systems who post on an infrequent basis from guest accounts. All these people are very familiar with how the net operates. The only reason they don't have their own logins is to discourage them from using the system on a regular basis (ie we are a bit short on resources right now :-)