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- From: Sten M. Drescher <smd@hrt216.brooks.af.mil>
- Subject: Re: user@host faking.
- In-Reply-To: gwydion@gnu.ai.mit.edu's message of 26 Dec 92 14: 50:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <9212281656.AA03737@hrt216.brooks.af.mil>
- Sender: daemon@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
- Organization: AL/HRTI, Brooks AFB
- References: <1992Dec26.023224.27417@njitgw.njit.edu> <1hhrfqINNanq@life.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:56:18 GMT
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- On 26 Dec 92 14:50:34 GMT, gwydion@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Mercenary Programmer) said:
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- Mercenary> NNTP-Posting-Host: spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu
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- Mercenary> 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.
-
- Mercenary> Keeping our nose clean, are we? Have we got a lollipop yet?
-
- Mercenary> Do you know how many machines run authd? Do you know how
- Mercenary> many machines intend to run authd?
- Do you know how many machines authd won't work on? I tried
- installing it here, but got no response from its test programs.
-
- Mercenary> Gwydion.
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