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rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu wrote:
>  Attempting to anonymous ftp to my site is rude at worst.  Using my site
>to do something rude to another site is an abuse of privileges.  If he wants
>to pay for his own computer and connection, the rudeness is his problem.

I agree completely with your position, Neil; but there's a problem
with what you just said. If I were to, say, do
	finger bill@foo.bar.com@cs.niu.edu
then try mary and steve and don, how've I abused privileges at your
site?

A different analogy to the FTP-roaming would be, perhaps, calling up
every Unix site you can find and trying to log in as nuucp, on the off
chance that the site has anonymous UUCP archives. Tho in this case,
you're paying for the activity, rather than dispersing it among the
many interim places packets will go before reaching an anon FTP site.

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