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From: rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: Possibly nefarious users
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.214915.18946@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 91 21:49:15 GMT
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In article <2D.-_.N@cs.widener.edu> brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
>
> Here's a question: how do other people deal with users that they *think*
>are doing no-nos around the net?  One of our users had the habit of
>occasionally going net-surfing and doing the hit-and-run type of
>attempts (trying 'guest' usually), but I didn't have any real proof--only

This is a no-no?  This is how many people I know first became
acquainted with the Arpanet (as it was called back then).  If someone
has a 'guest' account it seems like this is an invitation for the
outside world to look around; not much different from 'anonymous' ftp.

(I like that term, 'net-surfing'.  I'll have to pass it on to a 
friend of mine who first discovered the network while attending
the University of California at Santa Barbara!)

/Ron Newman		rnewman@bbn.com