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From: ambar@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jean Marie Diaz)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Foothead, Foothead, on the net/Who's the biggest liar yet?
Message-ID: <5553@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 19-Apr-87 02:58:29 EST
Article-I.D.: eddie.5553
Posted: Sun Apr 19 02:58:29 1987
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References: <1128@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> <1065@epimass.UUCP>
Reply-To: ambar@eddie.UUCP (Jean Marie Diaz)
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Cc: swa@comet.lcs.mit.edu, admin-eddie@eddie.mit.edu


In article <1065@epimass.UUCP> jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) writes:
>
>However, forging articles, breaking into
>machines, altering others' articles, and changing .forward files
>to redirect mail are grounds not only for being thrown off the net,
>but possibly a criminal case can be made (for the prometheus
>breakins).

The application for tourist accounts on mit-eddie warns people that
their accounts may be deactivated for no reason at all.  This
provision has not been invoked here for as long as I can remember, and
it is not being invoked now.

Faking mail and/or news is not tolerated here.  The shell scripts in
Foothead's home directory for doing both are ample reason to pull his
account.  Whether or not he is the perpetrator of the fake
arndt@prometheus articles is not relevant, although I would add that
files in /usr/rlr on borax seem to bear this out, as they contain the
tell-tale line:
To: (Erik Fair's magic address, which I won't post)

At any rate, we will not tolerate people using mit-eddie as a base for
harassing people.  fh@mit-eddie is gone.

Jean Marie Diaz, EECS/ECF Staff
ARPA: ambar@eddie.mit.edu		UUCP: {backboneslarerol nout3.2rat