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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Finding users (was Re: Jail postmasters)
Message-ID: <1780@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 27 Nov 89 15:38:44 GMT
References: <496@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <1989Nov26.045020.9447@smsc.sony.com> <1989Nov27.014417.11893@smsc.sony.com>
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Reply-exos:@crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)

In article <1989Nov27.014417.11893@smsc.sony.com> dce@icky.Sony.COM (David Elliott) writes:

| The problem with this solution is that it may be considered an
| invansion of privacy.  Some people may not want to have others be
| able to find their login name like this.  Also, it could lead to
| someone starting a "junk mail" campaign.

  And security issues arise. I don't want to hand someone a list of
logins so they can try for simple passwords. The less non-users know
about my system the better I like it.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon