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From: greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: net.news.sa,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: gateway madness - hplabs again?
Message-ID: <484@ncr-sd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-May-86 13:41:22 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 12 13:41:22 1986
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In article <222@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>HELP!!!

Funny you should be mentioning this -- not a half an hour ago I got a frantic
call from an HP site that sends us news.  He was trying to chase down and kill
some articles that had escaped.  It seems that any article with the path
fragment "!hpda!hpisoa2!hpitg!" in it should be considered bogus and canceled.
Unfortunately, I had already passed them along to a number of sites, so the
damage is already done, at least in SoCal.  I will try to issue cancellations
for these articles and broadcast them to the San Diego region -- it won't save
on phone calls already spent, but it should save on disk storage over the next
couple of weeks......

>.......  If
>this is hplabs 'testing' some new software again, I am most unhappy - perhaps
>a more controlled test environment would result in less nation-wide distress?

The problem is apparently the notes-to-news gateway again.  There have been so
many problems with this that perhaps we do need to consider some more stringent
precautions.  I would hate to argue that the solution is to cut all gateways
between the two, but obviously there do need to be some additional fire walls
beteeen them.

>Z Path: cbmvax!bpa!burdvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hpda!hpisoa2!hpitg!ivax!lmjm@ivax
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Cancel it.
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-- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo    Greg@ncr-sd.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA