Xref: utzoo comp.misc:10638 news.admin:11220 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!cc.ic.ac.uk!zmapj36 From: zmapj36@cc.ic.ac.uk (M.S.Bennett Supvs= Prof Pendry) Newsgroups: comp.misc,news.admin Subject: Re: Internet access Message-ID: <1990Nov27.141456.28413@cc.ic.ac.uk> Date: 27 Nov 90 14:14:56 GMT References: <127990@tiger.oxy.edu> Organization: Imperial College Computer Centre Lines: 9 Nntp-Posting-Host: sunb Now I do not aprove of malicious hacking - getting into systems people would not like you in. It is just that .... why do I get insulted when I use the guest password for a system - I know nothing about the system, I have never logged in by telnet before. I was alowed to login using anonymous ftp. I accept that comp administrators who give ftp access will usually not give any other access to their machines. Could somone give me the reasoning about the rudness? M. Sean Bennett