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Article #4321Re: NeXT/Sun bbs
From: Andrew Raskin
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:29
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:29
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I don't know all the ins and outs of NeXT's and bbss, the only one that I know about that has been around for a while is MindVox which runs on a NeXT Turbo & a Sun Sparcstation2, or did. They are 212-988-5030 or telnet phantom.com to check it out. But *WARNINGS* One its a commerical service, its not free. Two its not a generic kind of "public access unix" they've gone from going up to over 1,000 members and being in Mondo and this weeks FORBES cover story, there are wall to wall hackers, ex-hackers, security people, writers from the cyberpunk movement, etc, hanging out there and there is a *LOT* of attitude present. Three, with the attitude thing, they are also really obnoxious about some things, when MindVox first went up they found a lot of security holes in the NeXT platforms, some of them have been patched in NS3.0, some haven't, but there are a lot of people there who used to be in the underground and run/ran security mailing lists (Splinter, Zardoz, Inner Core), etc, Cypherpunk guys, etc,etc, it's not a great place to show up if you want to feel secure about your network, because there are a lot of people there who will be happy to show you it's swiss cheese. For what its worth, they are either taking the NeXT offline next year, or just moving it back on the network and the main server is becoming a Sun Sparcstation10 ;-)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!well!andras From: andras@well.sf.ca.us (Andrew Raskin) Subject: Re: NeXT/Sun bbs Message-ID: <Bz841F.41o@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link Distribution: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:29:38 GMT Lines: 30