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From: gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Want all paths from uucp -> ARPA
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Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 22:58:17 EST
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> From: hedrick@topaz.ARPA (Chuck Hedrick)

> The Arpanet is a Dept. of Defense resource.  There is an authorization
> process needed to use it.  

I think it's time, before an all-out flame war starts on who and what is 
allowed to send mail to the ARPA Internet, for someone in authority (ie.
someone who works at DARPA, or for the DCA, or something to that effect)
to state the policies of the ARPA Internet in reference to mail access
through the gateways.  The gateways exist, they are no secret, and there is
no official authorization process that I know of to send mail through them.
In other words, if you know what they are, you can use them, and you shouldn't
expect messages from the known gateways indicating that you cannot reach the
ARPA Internet from them.

> You will no doubt find holes in the network access controls that allow you to 
> send mail onto the net from UUCP.  But you should know that using any of 
> those holes without permission is effectively breaking somebody's security.  
> I.e. it is an unfriendly act.

I must disagree (see above).  How is it an unfriendly act, or a breaking of
security?  Where are the holes?  ARPA<->UUCP gatewaying is a known procedure.
Like I said above, there are known gateways which do forward mail, and every-
one on the gateway site who is in a staff position knows of the gateway's
existence (i.e. you don't need to do something which the staff doesn't know
about).

I hope someone in authority reads this newsgroup, or someone can forward this
posting to someone in authority (I'd do it, but I don't have a DDN Directory
so I don't remember to whom questions can be directed.)  I suppose if you have
a real important question, it can be addressed to NIC@SRI-NIC, accessible
through the known gateways.
-- 
			... hey, we've gotta get out of this place,
    			    there's got to be something better than this ...

Greg Skinner (gregbo)
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