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From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: sendsys from de
Keywords: news sendsys
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.183618.1339@sci34hub.sci.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 18:36:18 GMT
References: <1451@faatcrl.UUCP>
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Technology, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
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In article <1451@faatcrl.UUCP> warb@faatcrl (Dan Warburton) writes:
>This site got about 5 send sys messages from someware in de. The mail bounced. Did anyone
>else get these. Also what is the ediquette(sp) on this. We connot have world wide sendsys
>requests happening too often?

Haven't seen any here, yet.

I altered our control script to email a note that we don't give out
our sys file. Alternatively, I see no reason a sendsys request could
not be dropped. Granted, some people use them for propogation research,
but they could be disclosing information a cracker could use.

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