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From: frank@Morgan.COM (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Dangerous hole in Usenet!
Message-ID: <117@hudson.Morgan.COM>
Date: 18 Nov 88 14:31:25 GMT
References: <1227@vsi1.UUCP>
Reply-To: frank@Morgan.COM (Frank Wortner)
Organization: Morgan Stanley and Co., NY, NY
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In article <1227@vsi1.UUCP> lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes:
>It has come to my attention the there is a MAJOR hole created by the way
>many sites administer their machines.
>[...]
>I will send mail to anyone who is interested.  I will ONLY send it to the
>user "news" at your system.

Larry (and anyone else who feels that she/he has found a "MAJOR hole" in
the news software), I think you would do us a service if you sent your
theory to the maintainer or author of the software involved.  Why not
drop a note to Rick Adams (rick@seismo.css.gov)?  This way, an update
can be issued.  This would propogate any fix much more effectively and
insure that future installations also get the benefit of your change.
If you restrict distribution only to those sites that contact you directly,
I feel that you are (in effect) guaranteeing that the hole will remain
open at most sites.




-- 
						Frank

"Computers are mistake amplifiers."