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Yes, you've discovered that the machine will let you post on our
news server indirectly.

You are expected to be smarter than the machine, and to refrain from
disrupting or misusing other people's computer facilities.
(Which, so far, you're not doing, but I want to make sure you
understand this.)

That's a simple point about computer security that some people never
grasp.  It is not the machine's duty to prevent misuse.  It is
people's duty to refrain from misuse.  For good reasons, computers are
not going to be rigged to prevent every imaginable misuse; that would
be needless work and would interfere with unforeseen legitimate uses.

That's the way it works in the real world, too.  If someone wants to
heave a brick through your windshield or hit you over the head with a
baseball bat, no machine is going to stop them.  And when they go to
court, they won't be able to say, "The brick let me do it" or "The
baseball bat let me do it."

"The machine let me do it" is an excuse that carries no weight with
human beings.

-- 
Michael A. Covington                http://www.ai.uga.edu/faculty/covington/
Chairman, Computer Security Team
The University of Georgia       
Athens, GA 30602-7415 U.S.A.