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- From: tcbowden@clovis.felton.ca.us (Timothy Bowden)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: UUCP mail processing ethics
- Message-ID: <gD5ouB1w165w@clovis.felton.ca.us>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 06:20:51 PST
- References: <1992Nov20.193850.328@victrola.sea.wa.us>
- Organization: Yucca Flats II in Felton, CA
- Lines: 53
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- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
-
- > tcbowden@clovis.felton.ca.us (Timothy Bowden) writes:
- > [...note about a fido/uucp gatekeeper reading mail (deleted...]
- >
- > anybody sending mail over anything other than a privtate
- > point-to-point link who thinks their mail is 'really'
- > private is dreaming.
-
- > you have to assume it's all readable, and therefore
- > all could potentially be all read.
-
- What was eerie about this action was the trouble the sysop at
- the gateway was taking to intercept and read mail, when the
- default (I ran the same software) would leave no trace on his
- machine at all. It would ordinarilly pass like a ship in the
- night through his node, except that he took pains to copy it
- over so he could snoop.
-
- I don't buy the horror stories. There is a local case of a long-
- time suspected purveyor of kiddie porn who was busted after a
- year-long sting, but I hardly believe that justifies all the
- paranoia I see, specifically in that network.
-
- Probably your system is much more likely to be stolen or
- burned or damaged by natural disaster than be confiscated
- due to gendarmes tracing contraband...
-
- Interesting side issue comes up. I connect with four other
- machines, and each of them are privately owned, though one
- is a special MX hookup agreement with the University. I
- wonder how many Waffle sites are non-institutional individually-
- owned home jobbies?
-
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- > >tcbowden@clovis.felton.ca.us -
- > >uunet!scruz.ucsc.EDU!clovis.felton.ca.us!%A
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- > looks like your .sig file isn't expanding right...
-
- Yep, I was just informed the personal sig doesn't expand variables.
- I've only been doing this for weeks; many tricks to learn yet...
-
- Thanks,
-
- Tim
-
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