Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!widener!brendan From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) Subject: 3rd-party rudeness Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 13:15:16 GMT Organization: Widener CS Dept References: <1991Jun25.173013.3784@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1991Jun25.192914.23335@cs.utk.edu> <1991Jun25.200857.15553@mp.cs.niu.edu> Lines: 21 rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu wrote: > Attempting to anonymous ftp to my site is rude at worst. Using my site >to do something rude to another site is an abuse of privileges. If he wants >to pay for his own computer and connection, the rudeness is his problem. I agree completely with your position, Neil; but there's a problem with what you just said. If I were to, say, do finger bill@foo.bar.com@cs.niu.edu then try mary and steve and don, how've I abused privileges at your site? A different analogy to the FTP-roaming would be, perhaps, calling up every Unix site you can find and trying to log in as nuucp, on the off chance that the site has anonymous UUCP archives. Tho in this case, you're paying for the activity, rather than dispersing it among the many interim places packets will go before reaching an anon FTP site. -- Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu Widener University in Chester, PA A Bloody Sun-Dec War Zone Top Ten Surprises in Rocky V -- Number 5, Loveable Character Chewbacca Dies