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From: dboyes@uoregon.UUCP (David Boyes)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: More BITNET stupidity
Message-ID: <1625@uoregon.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 09:18:19 GMT
References: <7136@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu< <1619@tulum.UUCP> <1615@uoregon.UUCP> <7385@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: dboyes@drizzle.UUCP (David Boyes)
Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR
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In article <7385@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:

>(And as an aside, my note was not "lots of whining," as claimed.  I
>merely posted that I had gotten a strange note which I could not
>correlate with anything I'd written, couldn't get any direct help when
>I went through the standard procedure for asking for help, and hence
>posted here looking for network wisdom.  I can't think of a better
>approach to the problem.  I'm open to new suggestions, though.)

Sorry about that, Karl. I was in a filthy mood -- realize that for
every one of those messages you got, I got THREE. One as postmaster,
one as mailing list server maintainer, and one as mail daemon
maintainer -- which adds up to 11,268 messages. All because someone
at another site took the easy way out and used TRANSFER instead of SPTAPE...

>You have no hope whatever of making the system imposter-proof so long
>as you maintain connections with networks that openly and freely
>acknowledge that they are not secure, including but not limited to
>UUCP and the Internet.

Good point. I was thinking primarily of mail originating within
BITNET, but your comment is correct. 

>Karl


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