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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: sparky!uunet!sdl!tal From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) Subject: Re: Secure netnews Message-ID: <f10@Warren.MENTORG.COM> Summary: Oh nothing important. I just have this Perl script that I use to generate this stream of posts whenever someone posts the silly suggestion that netnews could be made secure. Keywords: silly automated Sender: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) Organization: Mentor Graphics - IC Group References: <f9@pilot.njin.net> <f8@drew.drew.edu> <f7@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <f6@pilot.njin.net> <f5@drew.drew.edu> <f4@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <f3@pilot.njin.net> <f2@drew.drew.edu> <f1@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <9208182108.AA09132@news.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:15:36 GMT Lines: 31 In <f9@pilot.njin.net> limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes: > This kind of remark always blows my mind. The net right now works > so well that tiny flashes of problems (like the recent cancel monger) > are worth it. Netnews is supposed to be fun, and if it's not fun > it might as well end. And, since all Usenet flame wars ultimately evolve to a prediction of The End Of The Net or a comparison to Hitler, we can concluded that this flame has reached its ultimate status. And therefore, it has reached its natural conclusion. I'd like to thank all the people that contributed to this discussion, and I'd like to thank all the people that will send me email telling me that they're new to the net and would like me to explain why their plan for an authenticated Usenet could be subverted. I'd also like to thank Vice President Dan Quayle for the inspiration to include typos and mis-spelled words here and there throughout the articles that I posted. Have a Usenet day. Tom -- There is nothing wrong with talking to yourself... I do it, and so do I! -- Tom Limoncelli -- tal@warren.mentorg.com (work) -- tal@plts.uucp (play) "Oh! I thought it was one of those useless demos of everything that a GUI builder could do." -Anonymous person watching demo of Solaris 2.0's graphical tool for managing NIS+