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From: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Dangerous hole in Usenet!
Message-ID: <149@ecicrl.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 88 06:18:42 GMT
References: <1227@vsi1.UUCP> <117@hudson.Morgan.COM>
Reply-To: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc. (CRL Division)
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In article <117@hudson.Morgan.COM> frank@Morgan.COM (Frank Wortner) writes:
>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.

>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.

Note that Larry said "by the way many sites administer their machines".
Not "there's a hole in some software...".

Eg: the holes that Larry and I are talking about are NOT IN ANY DISTRIBUTED
SOFTWARE!  So, there's nobody to "fix" it...

Sigh.
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