Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwvax!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: newgroup talk.bizarre.nice Message-ID: Date: 19 Jun 89 19:51:34 GMT References: <58128@uunet.UU.NET> <2690@splut.conmicro.com> <2691@splut.conmicro.com> <350@ai.cs.utexas.edu> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Distribution: talk Lines: 20 In-reply-to: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu's message of 19 Jun 89 18:33:57 GMT In <350@ai.cs.utexas.edu> fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) writes: > Nope. It arrived here along with the usual batch of news from uunet, > which tends to happen every 15 minutes or so. Nothing fishy about the > batch itself, which contained several legitimate articles. If the > batch was forged, then somebody also forged uunet.uu.net's IP address. > Not likely. More likely is that someone typed in the message on > uunet's NNTP port. Well I sure would like to know what the real story is; I've already locally rmgroup'ed the group and have been itching to send out a global rmgroup pending any sort of word from Gene, Greg, Brian or Bob, but especially something from Rick. The precedent which we would set by allowing this to remain a netwide group is not something to look upon lightly. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet")) "I realize the Internet isn't the whole world, but it is the center of it." -- Greg Woods