Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ucla-cs!sdcrdcf!psivax!quad1!oleg From: oleg@quad1.quad.com (Oleg Kiselev) Newsgroups: news.misc,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Foothead, Foothead, on the net/Who's the biggest liar yet? Message-ID: <892@quad1.quad.com> Date: Mon, 27-Apr-87 16:07:43 EDT Article-I.D.: quad1.892 Posted: Mon Apr 27 16:07:43 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Apr-87 00:36:30 EDT Reply-To: oleg@quad1.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev) Organization: HASA Lines: 36 Xref: mnetor news.misc:337 news.sysadmin:178 References: With all the flames and thundering declamations about Foothead's alleged forgeries... Yes, it was obvious that "arndt@prometheus.UUCP" articles were forged. I think it's the responcibility of the site administration at prometheus to control their users. Yes, the "arndt@prometheus.UUCP" articles with article ID's look like fakes as well. If it is proven that Foothead is behind it all, I will be rather dissapointed in Foothead. Mean while, I would like to remind Gene Ward Smith that the reason *I* nolonger have an account on LOCUS.UCLA.EDU is because I gave Brahms Gang an access to News posting at UCLA while brahms.berkeley.edu was off the net. That the same individual that caused a temporary shut-down of brahms' posting priveleges was rather displeased to see a few messages with crudely constructed headers come from UCLA, signed by Brahms Gang. And UCLA was all too happy use these "forgeries" as an excuse to kill my account, which, with the restrictive computer access rules at UCLA, they could and should have done anyway since I was nolonger involved with the project that required a UNIX system access. But it's one thing to terminate an account on "expiration date reached" basis, and completely different thing to shut a site (oacvax.ucla.edu) off eathernet access, deny oacvax.ucla.edu NNTP access to the UCLA News server, launch an "investigation" into alleged (and absurd) abuses of "system access" and vouch to never ever allow me any access to any of the UCLA systems for as long as I live (an empty and impotent threat, but an annoying one). And that's for letting the Crussaders of the Net Justice have a posting access to the NET by legitemately setting up an account on a UCLA machine that they could telnet to. Draw your own conclusions. Tighter security of the NET is a great idea, but I can look back at the rather injust treatment *I* received and wonder if some people have been getting over-zealous... -- Oleg Kiselev -- oleg@quad1.quad.com -- {...!psivax|seismo!gould}!quad1!oleg DISCLAIMER: All grammatical and spelling errors are inserted deliberately to test the software I am developing. In fact, that is the only reason I am posting. Yeah, that's the ticket! All my postings are just test data! Yeah!!