Path: utzoo!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mstar!mstar.morningstar.com!bob From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: C news && nntpxfer Message-ID: Date: 20 Nov 89 20:53:14 GMT References: <7229@cs.utexas.edu> Sender: news@MorningStar.COM (USENET Administrator) Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Organization: Morning Star Technologies Lines: 19 In-reply-to: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu's message of 18 Nov 89 17:50:44 GMT In article <7229@cs.utexas.edu> fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) writes: Nntpxfer probably got your NAME and the location of your .signature file from your environment, which of course is inherited by relaynews (or whatever the relevant C news program is). This sort of thing isn't C News' fault - it happened to "me" a couple of years ago under B 2.11.something. I ran an expire in a uid-0 shell that was carrying my environment around with me, and when all the locally-posted articles that had accumulated during the expire were processed, they had my name attached. One of "my" articles described, in some considerable detail, "my" ...er... activites in pursuit of "my" ...er... alternative lifestyle over the previous several years. I got mail from several folks with content ranging from "I think a bug bit you" to "I never would have guessed :-)". It was all quite funny, though a little embarassing. Since then, I have performed all such tasks in a separate window, under the "root" login and the motto "Safe Sysadmin" :-)