Re: Attack on Usenet - missing news.answers

Danny R. Faught (faught@zeppelin.convex.com)
Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:24:11 -0600 (CST)

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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 ?

Don't most sites verify where control messages like that come from? I
don't remember whether it's an Approval: header of the From: header,
but we certainly don't accept rmgroups from just any kook out there.

-Danny

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