Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!porthos.rutgers.edu!webber From: webber@porthos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Take a sniff of (keyword) Gnews Keywords: keywords Message-ID: Date: 28 Mar 88 00:45:03 GMT References: <1509@looking.UUCP> <357@mancol.UUCP> <8061@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 41 In article <8061@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Emacs Weenie) writes: > I'll also point out that Gnews does have two restrictions built in to > its posting mode: ... > (*) Double signature appending is blocked, using some very trivial heur- > istics. > I have yet to hear a single complaint about either of these. I COMPLAIN. Double signature inclusion is one of the easiest automatic idiot detectors to install in software. Of course, a -- indicating that a person who has just typed a 20+ line message finds typing their own signature too tedious is also a good indicator. Automatic cross-correlation with people on the moderators list and people who post votes to news.groups is still available though. Hmmm, I guess it is still easy to spot idiots. I UNCOMPLAIN. ------ BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber) p.s., so why is garnet the only site in creation running ftp that doesn't recognize anonymous? Script started on Sun Mar 27 19:38:00 1988 porthos[2,1] ftp garnet.berkeley.edu Connected to garnet.berkeley.edu. 220 garnet.berkeley.edu FTP server (Version 4.16 Tue Aug 11 12:23:14 PDT 1987) ready. Name (garnet.berkeley.edu:(null)): anonymous Password (garnet.berkeley.edu:anonymous): 530 User anonymous unknown. Login failed. ftp> quit 221 Goodbye. porthos[2,2] ftp arizona.edu Connected to arizona.edu. 220 megaron.arizona.edu FTP server (Version 4.109 Mon Sep 14 17:06:01 MST 1987) ready. Name (arizona.edu:(null)): anonymous Password (arizona.edu:anonymous): 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> quit 221 Goodbye. porthos[2,3] exit script done on Sun Mar 27 19:40:06 1988