Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ki4pv.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!akguc!codas!peora!ucf-cs!ki4pv!tanner From: tanner@ki4pv.UUCP (Tanner Andrews) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: I'm learning why nobody likes mod groups (NOT unreliable mail) Message-ID: <7013@ki4pv.UUCP> Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 12:02:44 EST Article-I.D.: ki4pv.7013 Posted: Wed Dec 11 12:02:44 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Dec-85 03:56:40 EST References: <1959@glacier.ARPA>, <267@omen.UUCP> Organization: CompuData South, DeLand Lines: 19 ] proposed solution: moderators publish public UUCP login; example given This has several problems with it. The first of these is that the moderator may not be the system administrator, who passes out such information. The potential joke submittor may also not be a system administrator, and thus might not be able to add the moderator's system to the list of sites called. It is also possible that the submittor is on a site which does not have dial-out abilities, or that the moderator (in some ARPA cases) is on a site that does not offer dial-in uucp capabilities. On many sites (this one included) uucp login information is not posted for the general world, but is made available upon application by respon- sible parties. This may be done for several reasons, the most common of which are security and shortage of dial-in ports. -- Tanner Andrews, KI4PV uucp: ...!decvax!ucf-cs!ki4pv!tanner