Re: * ?

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From: Valdis Kletnieks
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 20:30

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On Tue, 21 Sep 1993 13:32:52 -0500 Zerith said:
>        Then I sent directly to make sure it was relay and not my system
>        and the person got all 3 lines.  Therefore, relay is crunching
>        anything that begins with an * (and this happened with others,
>        not just me)  Suggestions? Observations? Explanations?

This is to conform with Bitnet standards regarding automated message
services.  Basically, automatically generated message should start
with a '*' (such as from mailers, Listserv, GONE, etc), and servers
should never respond to a message that starts with a '*'.

The alternative (as has happened on occasion) is that some naive user
will fire up a broken version of GONE that fails to prefix with a '*'
and every time somebody on channel 1 says something, it echoes back

I am not here right now, but your message has been recorded.

or similar, until you can find an op to can the userid....

/Valdis

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