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From: jis@MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kerberos
Subject: Re: Re - potential misuse of th
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Date: 24 Sep 90 18:15:32 GMT
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	Actually these messages are the result of a software bug and are
not intentional acts. The individuals in question posted their messages
to what should have been local for-sale bulletin boards. Here is a
message we received on this issue:

   Date: Fri, 21 Sep 90 08:02:57 PDT
   From: kolk@smiley.Stanford.EDU (Dan Kolkowitz)
   To: jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
   Subject: Re:  Your recent mail/post to 'kerberos@athena.mit.edu'/comp.protocols.kerberos

   this is a bug in bnews--if someone has a group that overlaps with a
   distribution domain, e.g. na, then it will get posted to every group
   that has that distribution.  Cnews fixes this.  We will be moving to it
   shortly.  That's why this kind of stuff shows up.


			-Jeff