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Re: RFC931 (was Re: Fake headers on Internet mail)

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From: Neil Rickert
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 12:50
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In article <13914.Aug1500.33.5192@virtualnews.nyu.edu> brnstnd@nyu.edu (D. J. Bernstein) writes:
>Look, RFC 931 isn't perfect, but it's trivial to get running and it
>takes the edge off of annoyance attacks like ``telnet yourhost 25''.

  Now if I could only find something to take the edge of the pro-RFC931
propaganda nuisance attacks, which are far more common than the telnet
to port 25 nuisance attacks.
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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
Subject: Re: RFC931 (was Re: Fake headers on Internet mail)
Message-ID: <1992Aug17.125004.1803@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 17 Aug 92 12:50:04 GMT
References: <1992Aug14.173113.5978@fwi.uva.nl> <1992Aug14.191748.11505@reed.edu> <13914.Aug1500.33.5192@virtualnews.nyu.edu>
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