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From: karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
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Subject: osu-cis access: Metacharacter uucp refusal
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Date: 11 Oct 89 15:30:43 GMT
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For the 27,864th time, and quoting from GNU.how-to-get...

|NOTE: Do not request the files to be transferred using a command like
|
|% uucp osu-cis!~/gnu/emacs/18.55/emacs\* /some/local/directory
|
|because that won't work.  That will queue up a short request via *uux*
|to run a uucp command on osu-cis; it will fail for security reasons.

(...in response to a fair number of questions, complaints, and an
occasional flame regarding various foolish individuals' failed
attempts to do exactly this...)

We thank you
for your support,
--Karl