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- From: asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: user@host faking.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.211303.10214@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 21:13:03 GMT
- References: <1992Dec26.023224.27417@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Organization: Nothing worth mentioning...
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- Nntp-Posting-Host: polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu
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- lcm1501@hertz.njit.edu (Lawrence C. Mc Abee) was telling me...
- >
- > Since the patriot thread strted this, I thought I would bring it up
- > in a seperate thread. Faking of users user@id's on irc is an aannoying and
- > potentially dangerous action. I would hope other admins would update
- > their server to the 2.7.2gID server that uses authd. Actually, I would
- > hope other server opers/admins would take the stance that we at hertz.njit.edu
- > have taken. We allow NO user tampering of user@id's. This seems obvious to
- > us as a way to make users a little more responsible for their acts.
-
- Well if you look at punisher's motd or eff, or csd, they all say there
- will be no faking of user@hosts...it's been that way for quite a long time
- now. Since atleast when ircd was on betwixt at caltech.
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- Good policy, but it takes someone to actually enforce it. for csd, hard to do
-
- -Alex
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