Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.3) 9/5/84; site epicen.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!pesnta!epicen!jbuck From: jbuck@epicen.UUCP (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: c*nc*l <148@psueea.UUCP> and many others Message-ID: <256@epicen.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 20:54:49 EST Article-I.D.: epicen.256 Posted: Sat Nov 2 20:54:49 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Nov-85 07:25:35 EST References: <134@desint.UUCP> <5667@amdcad.UUCP> Reply-To: jbuck@epicen.UUCP (Joe Buck) Distribution: net Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 16 Summary: oliveb probably isn't guilty In article <5667@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes: >The fact that it was being done at oliveb was quite obvious after >the first three articles. I looked at the path and I knew oliveb didn't >have that many connections. No, Phil. It could have been done by a system administrator at a machine with a connection to oliveb. The guilty party could have changed his/her system name to match that of the article s/he wanted to cancel, then call oliveb (or any other site that doesn't have the NOSTRANGERS feature of some of the newer UUCP's). oliveb would have accepted the name and host as being authentic. There are easier ways to do the trick as well (but I'm not eager to tell non-system administrators how to do it). -- Joe Buck | Entropic Processing, Inc. UUCP: {ucbvax,ihnp4}!dual!epicen!jbuck | 10011 N. Foothill Blvd. ARPA: dual!epicen!jbuck@BERKELEY.ARPA | Cupertino, CA 95014