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Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!nuug!barsoom!tih
From: tih@barsoom.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Bogus control -- need I do anything?
Message-ID: <1990Sep12.180429.4305@barsoom.nhh.no>
Date: 12 Sep 90 18:04:29 GMT
Distribution: news
Organization: Norwegian School of Economics
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OK, so this batch of news just came in, with the following message in it:

> Path: nuug!sunic!mcsun!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!hero!Donotello
> From: Donotello@teenage.mutant.ninja.turtles.home
> Newsgroups: news.misc.ctl
> Subject: morons R us
> Message-ID: <9999999999999999999teenage.0000@nowhere.uucp>
> Date: 10 Sep 90 12:00:00 GMT
> Sender: news@milton.u.washington.edu
> Lines: 0
> Cancel: <1000Sep99.000000.0000@teenage.mutant.ninja.turtles.home>

Cnews barfed on it, and logged an error.  It didn't find an executable
"morons" in its ctl directory (naturally), and it proceeded to leave the
whole batch file in the /usr/spool/news/in.coming/bad directory.

I'm new to Cnews, and the documentation isn't too detailed...  Since this
is obviously a forgery (and seemingly a pretty poor one at that), am I
right in assuming that no damage has been done, and I can simply ignore it?

Comments appreciated!

-tih
-- 
Tom Ivar Helbekkmo, NHH, Bergen, Norway.  Telephone: +47-5-959205
tih@barsoom.nhh.no, thelbekk@norunit.bitnet, edb_tom@debet.nhh.no