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From: joltes@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Richard Joltes)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: (none)
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Date: 1 Jun 90 20:34:32 GMT
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In article <9006011429.AA18394@interlan.interlan.com> solensky@INTERLAN.INTERLAN.COM (Frank Solensky) writes:
>Yes, it is atypical.  I've been on the list for about a year and this is the
>first time someone at, shall we say, "this level" (note indiscriminate use
>of "O" and "0") has posted this type of thing.

This article (title "COWABUNGA" and sent by someone called "BIFF") seems to 
have been posted to nearly every major newsgroup simultaneously, or nearly so.
I know it's appeared on:

comp.lang.fortran
comp.dcom.lan
comp.dcom.cisco
comp.os.vms
comp.sys.dec
comp.protocols.tcpip
rec.org.sca
rec.arts.startrek

I'm not sure about any others, but someone else said it'd been posted to one
of the security newsgroups as well.  Someone has tried replying and the mail
hasn't yet bounced, which leads me (at least) to believe that some idiot got
access to a friend's account and decided to play.

If anyone reading this is associated with CMU or PSUVM (both mentioned in the
article) they may want to do some checking.  Others already are...

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Mgr. of Hardware & Facilities
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