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- From: gwydion@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mercenary Programmer)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: user@host faking.
- Message-ID: <1hhrfqINNanq@life.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 14:50:34 GMT
- References: <1992Dec26.023224.27417@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Organization: Free Software Foundation
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- In article <1992Dec26.023224.27417@njitgw.njit.edu> lcm1501@hertz.njit.edu (Lawrence C. Mc Abee) writes:
- >
- > 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.
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- Keeping our nose clean, are we?
- Have we got a lollipop yet?
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- Do you know how many machines run authd?
- Do you know how many machines intend to run authd?
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- Gwydion.
-