Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bywater!scifi!acheron!clarke
From: clarke@acheron.uucp (Ed Clarke/10240000)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Support your local PostMaster (was Re: Standard site aliases . . .)
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.042754.27741@acheron.uucp>
Date: 27 Sep 90 04:27:54 GMT
References: <1639.26ffec90@dcs.simpact.com>
Organization: Ciliophora Associates
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From article <1639.26ffec90@dcs.simpact.com>, by jeh@dcs.simpact.com:
> And on some of them, we never log into the "SYSTEM" account anyway -- it is 
> such an obvious target for penetration attempts that we routinely disable it

> We already tell DECUS uucp sites to forward "postmaster" to a real person
> (probably the person reading the installation instructions).  If there are 
> other "standard aliases" we should be setting up, please let me know!  

From the README of comp.mail.maps:

# Also, it's a good idea to give a generic address or alias (if your
# mail system is capable of providing aliases) like `usenet' or
# `postmaster', so that if the contact person leaves the institution or
# is re-assigned to other duties, he doesn't keep getting mail about the
# system. In a perfect world, people would send notice to the UUCP

And my /usr/lib/aliases file (from the University of Illinois):

# Following alias is required by the new mail protocol, RFC 822
postmaster:clarke
usenet:clarke

I don't log in as root either; su is sufficient for most non-maintenance
work.  What I have done is to put .forwards in the home directories of
all maintenance type uids ( root, adm, bin ) to point to me.
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               |  into the Void!  May --"
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