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From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc
Subject: Re: Do you restrict your users?
Message-ID: <ND##TF%@rpi.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 90 00:32:51 GMT
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In article <583@sci34hub.UUCP> gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston) writes:

> A news or site admin can explain to Joe User what the joys of rsh
> are, which can do wonders to bringing someone in line.

rsh == restricted shell.   (That's for the sake of primarily BSD
people like me who didn't quite understand on the first person why you
were bringing remote commands into this. :-)

> I'd tell boss's boss's boss to tell high professor to not bother him
> with trivial complaints, they should go to the netadmin, which anyone
> reading news should know to reach at site!postmaster.

Don't count on it.  The articles you are replying to are from BITNET
and site!user might not even be understood there.  It won't deliver
local mail around here, either, because we don't do UUCP.  (Yeah,
yeah, we can hack up the cf.  It's the _idea_ of it though. :-)
Furthermore, if they're like many other larger sites then very
possibly the postmaster isn't the news admin.  I'm not the postmaster
around here, which is something I quite appreciate.  A better bet on
many UNIX systems is to mail to "news" or "usenet".  Even if the
postmaster is the same person it is quite possible that she likes to
keep different aspects of her job seperate.

Dave