Re: Attack on Usenet - missing news.answers

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Simon Lyall (simon@darkmere.gen.nz)
Wed, 30 Oct 1996 12:52:13 +1300 (NZDT)

On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
> news.answers was rmgroup'ed by some dorks wanting to change
> the way Usenet is run - the hard way. Any idea on how quickly
> the newgroup message will propagate ?
> Oh, and one of the suspected culprits has sent out a FAQ on
> "Rogue Sites" on the Internet. Comments ?!?

I would suggest that everyone encourage their local news-admins to
upgrade their software so it requires pgp signing for messages in the
"Big 8" groups (and others).

The patches and general information are available from:

ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/news/misc/pgpcontrol/

also INN1.5b1 has it built in already.

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