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- From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc
- Subject: You'll get a kick out of this... :-)
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 21:13:09 GMT
- Organization: Just me.
- Lines: 45
- Message-ID: <1k9i95INNp21@uwm.edu>
- References: <C1Jovn.FpK@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33
- Summary: Was: Make MONEY!!!
-
- >From pwf@unet.umn.edu Thu Jan 28 15:03 CST 1993
- Received: from mome.unet.umn.edu by ee.uwm.edu; Thu, 28 Jan 93 15:03:46 -0600
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- id AA09844; Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:06:54 -0600
- >From: "Paul W. Fakler" <pwf@unet.umn.edu>
- Message-Id: <199301282106.AA09844@mome.unet.umn.edu>
- Subject: Re: Make MONEY!!!
- To: rick (Rick Miller)
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 15:06:53 CST
- In-Reply-To: <9301281018.AA09675@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>; from "Rick Miller" at Jan 28, 93 4:15 am
- X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
- Status: RO
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- > From rick@ee.uwm.edu Thu Jan 28 04:18:40 1993
- > ...
- > You've got a fairly knowledgable prankster in your midst...
- > and he/she has dialup SLIP access to your news-server.
- >
- > It was probably done simply by adding a "From:" line to their Usenet
- > message header, but it worries me that this person has dialup-SLIP access.
- > It would probably only be a matter of (a short) time before they learn how
- > to "spoof" more anonymously if he/she is not repremanded at this point.
- >
- > Here is the posting, quoted in whole, as I received it:
- > ----------------------------------------------------------
- >[posting omitted for brevity]
-
- Not so knowledable. We are actively promting SLIP access (and keeping logs
- of everyone who uses it). We have disabled SLIP access for the account in
- question. All staff and students at the UofM have access to a slip
- terminal server. We are pursuing other actions in regard to this matter.
-
-
- Paul.
-
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