Xref: utzoo news.admin:4156 news.sysadmin:1789 comp.mail.uucp:2439 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Dangerous hole in Usenet! Message-ID: <13200@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 3 Dec 88 00:05:49 GMT References: <1227@vsi1.UUCP> <1247@vsi1.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: news.admin Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 18 As quoted from <1247@vsi1.UUCP> by lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair): +--------------- | One thing that bugs the hell out of me: it takes about 30 seconds to create | a mail alias, but a lot of supposed administrators sent me mail like, "Gee, | we don't have a 'news' user here." +--------------- Your posting said that you would respond only to mail sent BY the user "news". Aliases don't help with that; you have to log in as "news" to get that name as the sender, modulo uucp or smtp forgery. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, comp.sources.misc moderator and one admin of ncoast PA UN*X uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu allberyb@skybridge.sdi.cwru.edu allbery@uunet.uu.net comp.sources.misc is moving off ncoast -- please do NOT send submissions direct Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@.