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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!sgi!rhyolite!vjs
- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: Tranquillity
- Message-ID: <otfb1g4@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <2566@news.cerf.net>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 21:40:18 GMT
- Lines: 59
-
- In article <2566@news.cerf.net>, billabs@nic.cerf.net (Bill Romanowski) writes:
- > >I am sure no unfriendly intent was involved and I hope no one is deeply
- > >offended, but it would be better to put such things on one's own
- > >machine in the future. At least first check with postmaster or root at
- > >the third party.
- > >
- > >It would be unfortunately and inconvenient for all of us if ~ftp/pub on
- > >sgi.com had to stop being writable by people outside the SGI corporate
- > >network.
- > >
- > >Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
- > >
- > deeply shamed, bill romanowski replies..
- > 1) tq was commissioned by sgi as demo fun for the user community
- > so I thought sgi.com was a reasonable place to disperse it.
- > 2) I thought pub was pub.
- > 3) I'll crawl back under the rock I came from. Maybe I'll write
- > the more appropos game of Hostility.
- > 4) Vernon needs to relax with a nice round of Tranquillity.
- >
- > bill romanowski
- > VP of remorse
- > prairie research
-
-
- Tranquility on the Internet became reckless a long time ago, when less
- technically inclined people discovered the fun of messing up systems
- used by others, when the ARPANET stopped being a secret, strange, and
- uninteresting toy of computer nerds. In the good old days, pub was
- public.
-
- Have you heard of the problems at many places where people have made
- FTP pub directories into semi-secret dirty-gif-picture servers? In
- recent months the most popular question about anonymous FTP serving has
- changed from "how do I set it up?" to "how do I make the pub safely
- writable?". As far as I can tell from what people say about such
- problems, sgi.com is in now the minority in having a publically
- writable ~ftp/pub.
-
- I figure the main reason sgi.com has not suffered the gif-plague is
- that the ~ftp/pub cleaning mechanism is so draconian that it's not
- worth their trouble. We also keep logs, off the machine. And do
- various other fundamentally hostile things. Such is life in the big
- city.
-
- As I think I said, it's possible that we could work something out,
- where the file would live in ~ftp/sgi or some such real place. We'd
- need a suitable README file, which would also need text giving us the
- right to re-distribute it. (Consider that angle--we wouldn't want your
- evil twin to distribute something proprietary in ~fpt/pub and then have
- you sue us for it.) Someone inside SGI would need to sponsor it, to be
- responsible in case it is a trojan horse that copies secrets to a
- prairie somewhere.
-
-
- I still hope you're not deeply offended.
-
- vjs
-
-