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From: oconnor@nuke.steinmetz (Dennis M. O'Connor)
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Subject: Re: Proposed OFFICIAL Newsgroup Creation/Deletion Guidelines
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Date: 24 Mar 89 21:10:31 GMT
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An article by welty@steinmetz.ge.com (richard welty) says:
] it would be nice if persons voting on a proposal were
] required to provide something resembling a real name in their
] votes ... i'd like some evidence of a person behind the particular vote.
] this still won't protect votes from rabid sysadministrators
] sending in votes from newly made-up accounts ...

Nor from systems like Lisp machines, which often have no security at
all usually ( although it IS possible to activate it ). All you need
to create an account on a Symbolics Lispm is attempt to login. These
insecure machines are on the net, in fact, Dick Welty used one to
post his article. Well, maybe it was Dick Welty : our Lispms don't
usually have passwords on accounts enabled. It could have been anyone.
--
 Dennis O'Connor   oconnor%sungod@steinmetz.UUCP  ARPA: OCONNORDM@ge-crd.arpa
 "Jethro Tull won the Heavy Metal/Hard Rock Grammy. Clearly, I am a MetalHead."