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From: hartley@uvm-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Hartley)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: deceptive mail
Message-ID: <333@uvm-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 11-Nov-84 07:34:35 EST
Article-I.D.: uvm-cs.333
Posted: Sun Nov 11 07:34:35 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Nov-84 01:01:02 EST
Organization: University of Vermont
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I owe the net a sincere apology:

>	You must be new to the net.
>
>	When encountering a bug like this, with such nightmarish security
>consequences, do NOT POST IT!!   Instead, post a note stating that you will
>send the bug report to site!root for all sites from which you receive
>mail from site!root.
>
>	Why?  It's now 11:03 on a Saturday morning here...your article
>has been on our system for about 2 hours...and already people are starting
>to exploit the bug.

I received the above response to my recent posting.  I didn't realize the
potential consequences of spreading the information.  I am not new to the net,
I just didn't think.  My apologies to all sites for whom this has caused
problems.
-- 
"If that's true, then I'm the Pope!"		Stephen J. Hartley
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