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From: ooblick@mit-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,news.misc,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Foothead, Foothead, on the net/Who's the biggest liar yet?
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Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 15:38:37 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 22 15:38:37 1987
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Reply-To: ooblick@eddie.UUCP (Mikki Barry)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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Since I opened my mouth on this issue in the first place, I feel obliged
to clarify my views.

First, I admit a big error in being upset about root using privileges
when someone is accused of wrongdoing.  I should have thought first.

However, when said "root" then posts to the net that fh was using scripts
in his login to "forge news and mail", this is where I get upset.  This
was blatently untrue.  The scripts were used to allow Pooh and Paul
Zimmerman news and mail access.  I have been told that "time" was the
reason why this was not checked out before action was taken.  However, the
time it has taken in posting to the net in the first place, then in
response to complaints from myself and others, seem to indicate that it
would have been much more prudent to check first.

Therefore, the reasons posted to the net for removing fh were bogus.
On the other hand, fh could just as easily (and without so much bullshit)
have been removed for NO reason, or because it sure looks like he at least
had something to do with the phony arndt articles.

Not that I am crushed because fh is no more (quite the contrary), I just
don't like the "act now, check later" attitude, and hope that other sysadmins
do not adopt it.

Mikki Barry