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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!olivea!charnel!rat!polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu!asamonte
- From: asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: patriot.mit.edu (vanity server alert)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.203358.10285@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 20:33:58 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.000434.16968@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1992Dec15.015224.16530@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> <9212151418.AA02294@hrt213.brooks.af.mil>
- Organization: Nothing worth mentioning...
- Lines: 24
- Nntp-Posting-Host: polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu
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- tjm@hrt213.brooks.af.mil (Tim Miller) was telling me...
- >On 15 Dec 92 01:52:24 GMT, asamonte@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Just some loser...) said:
- >
- > > Doubtful. Look at his last post...he knows it's a hack. The only
- > > one I can think of off the top of my head (that I didn't think of last
- > > time) was a server in *.tw I think it was. And how long did that last?
- > > patriot has been faking the hostname from day1.
- >
- > Does anyone else besides me remember vogon.bu.edu? At least
- >patriot.mit.edu is in the dns.
- >
- > And I can make sendmail drop my domain name easily. Does that
- >make it a hack?
-
- Sure it does. Or atleast it doens't work as it should. WHenever someone
- tries to forge a usenet posting, that's considered a hack. I see
- irc as following the same rules. When this was a hot topic a year or so
- ago about forged usernames, someone cited some net policy about
- misrepresenting yourself or something. If such a policy exists, I would
- think it would apply here too.
-
- -Alex
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