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- Path: sparky!uunet!rde!andy
- From: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com (Andy Finkenstadt)
- Subject: Re: GEnie To Internet
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.211232.24798@homebase.vistachrome.com>
- Reply-To: andy@homebase.vistachrome.com
- Organization: Vista-Chrome Incorporated
- References: <1992Aug26.212904.15265@samba.oit.unc.edu> <Btn9nI.My6@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:12:32 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:
- >Are you telling me that GEnie's computers run under UNIX? If they do
-
- No, they don't. But GEnie's Internet Gateway machine runs Unix (well,
- at least it identifies itself with SMTP as an HPUX machine).
-
- >not, then what possible effect could any insecurities in a UNIX system
- >affect GEnie? Don't make the common mistake of assuming that the
-
- Believe it or not, by offering the ftp-data port for connection, you
- open your system up to some little-known security problems.
-
- >Internet has anything at all to do with UNIX - the purists will bite
- >your head off! ;-)
-
- I'm not a purist. :)
-
- >I took
- >advantage of their feedback menu option and told them what I thought of
- >their pricing strategy. ;-)
-
- Thank you. That is the most effective place to educate GEnie and to
- give your ideas back to them.
-
- Of course, you don't quite know this - but part of the conference
- Walt said he might have to rewrite the whole billing thing... you'll
- see when I post the conference to some newsgroups.
-
- -Andy
- disclaimer: i don't speak for genie, they don't speak for me. :-)
-
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