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From: henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: guest accounts
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Date: 10 Mar 88 23:31:18 GMT
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In-reply-to: todd@uop.edu (Dr. Nethack)


In article <1248@uop.edu>, todd@uop (Dr. Nethack) writes:
>Lately I have seen a few postings from a guest account or two,
>and on the subject of forgeries, why is this permitted?

Why shouldn't it be permitted?  You do on your system what you like,
and I'll do what I like on mine.  If I have a guest account on my
system and it gets abused then I am responsible for it.
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