Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!dave From: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: RFC on my "abuse" Message-ID: <1991Jul1.015023.5988@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 1 Jul 91 01:50:23 GMT References: <1991Jun25.154257.7452@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun25.173013.3784@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1991Jun25.192914.23335@cs.utk.edu> Reply-To: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab - Pasadena, CA Lines: 20 jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) writes: > It sounds like the actions taken by the original sysadmins were >quite reasonable. Your points are well taken except for the last quoted one. If it had been me, I would have sent mail after I found the *first* script running. Further, having investigated what it was doing, I would have removed it from my system. Finally, I would have given the guy the "anon_ftp" list that comes over alt.sources every so often. That way, no "negation with no replacement". 8) Calling "Foul" after you let the guy continue to foul you is pretty bogus. -- Dave Hayes - Network & Communications Engineering - JPL / NASA - Pasadena CA dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov ames!elroy!dxh "It is a dragon, destroyer of all," cried the ants. Then a cat caught the lizard.