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- From: spp@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Stephen P. Potter)
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- Subject: Re: Just wondering...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.025206.14783@eng.ufl.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 02:52:06 GMT
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- In article <REID.93Jan27012619@dsm.dsm.fordham.edu> reid@dsm.fordham.edu (Darin Reid) writes:
- >Just wondering: I foward my mail from machine A to machine B - Then I
- >foward my mail frm machine B to machine A - what happens when someone
- >sends mail to either account?
- >
-
- Well, if you do this at 3:00 in the morning, you have a very angry system
- administrator in your office at 8:01 (give him time to get into his office and
- see his machines having problems). We had a student here in our department
- put *five* local hosts into his .forward file. They merrily sent the message
- to each of the five machine, which in turn sent to each of the five machine,
- which....... Needless to say, I was not a happy camper, as it was my first
- day on the job and I didn't have the root passwords yet. I had to find one
- of the other people who had the password, get the password, and fix the problem.
-
- At least, on the good side, I got the passwords that someone had forgotten to
- tell me ;)
-
- Steve
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