Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!amdahl!gam
From: gam@uts.amdahl.com (Gordon Moffett)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: malicious sendsys
Message-ID: <00YSg58qIV1010KkE3c@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 8 Feb 89 10:10:25 GMT
Reply-To: gam@uts.amdahl.com (Gordon Moffett)
Distribution: na
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
Lines: 40

I found a sendsys message posted via news.admin with
an 'na' distribution, shown below.   Enclosed is the
letter I sent to the relevant parties.  The site it comes
from is run by the fellow who posted the sendsys, so I
wrote the following letter to his news feed, carbon copied
to *that* site's news feed.

And now, of course, to all you people:

# To: devon!paul devon!postmaster
# Cc: vu-vlsi!uuadm
# 
# I caught this sendsys message passing thru my site, and as
# it appears malicious I removed it before it could be passed on.
# It would have caused -- maybe has caused --  a great waste of
# transmit time thruout North America.
# 
# Since Mr. Buda owns the macine that this came from, I
# turn to his news feed as the person who could stop this.
# Please talk to Mr. Buda about this.  This is an irresponsible
# use of the network.
# 
# The message:
# 
# > Path: amdahl!sri-unix!quintus!arisia!lll-winken!spl1!vu-vlsi!devon!chessene!root
# > From: root@chessene.UUCP (This System)
# > Newsgroups: control,news.admin.ctl
# > Subject: sendsys
# > Message-ID: <666@chessene.UUCP)
# > Date: 6 Feb 89 07:36:58 GMT
# > Control: sendsys
# > Reply-To: hermit@chessene.UUCP (Mark Buda)
# > Distribution: na
# > Organization: The Hermit's Enclave, Lancaster PA
# > Lines: 1
# > 
# > Thou shalt NOT fuck with rec.arts.startrek.....
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Gordon A. Moffett                             gam@uts.amdahl.com
+1 408 746-8287		      {ames,sun,uunet,decwrl}!amdahl!gam