Re: Mutating timezones (was: Accuracy of archie clock/Demon's clock)

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From: Clive.Jones
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1995 00:00

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In article <19950404.185047.54@compton.demon.co.uk> tom@compton.demon.co.uk writes:
>In article <3lr4eo$5vl@doc.armltd.co.uk> you (Clive.Jones@armltd.co.uk) wrote:
>> They could put an ident response in as well, if available. That way,
>> at least the sysadmin at a Demon customer site would have more
>> information to go on if someone from their site tried to mess around.

>I suspect that most of the larger Demon customers who have larger numbers
>of users run their own news server and talk IHAVE/SENDME to Demon anyway.

Indeed, but that doesn't stop users at those larger Demon customer
sites from telnetting directly to news.demon.co.uk's nntp port, and
manually injecting silly articles, in an attempt to circumvent local
authentication systems. (-8

--Clive.
               (Disclaimer: I wouldn't believe a word of this if I were you...)

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From: Clive.Jones@armltd.co.uk
Subject: Re: Mutating timezones (was: Accuracy of archie clock/Demon's clock)
Date: 1995/04/05
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