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We the Grimstari would like to explain ourselves and 
apologize for any inconvience we have caused.

One day we were looking through the available newsgroups 
via our own personal newsserver (completely unrelated to
any Georgia Tech machine), and we found the uga.tech
newsgroup, which was apparently publicly readable.  We
decided to subscribe to uga.tech to see what it was used
for.  After three days and absolutely no posts showed,
we decided (as Georgia Tech students) that it would be
funny to spam this newsgroup.  It wasn't active so we
did not think we would harm anything, and the people at UGA
who were aware of the newsgroup would suddenly discover
a Georgia Tech presence in the newsgroup uga.tech (at
one point we even speculated the newsgroup was about
Georgia Tech, but since there were never any posts we
did not know).

So one night (March 12, 1997) we decided to go ahead 
and post a bunch of messages to that newsgroup.  Many
of these posts were jokes about Georgia Tech or 
discussing professors and/or TA's at Georgia Tech 
we liked or did not like.  Nearly all of our posts 
were done within a six hour period on this night.  
We never saw any response.  Two days after we posted 
one piece of news showed up on our newsfeed, but it 
implied nothing had happened.   We replied to this 
message (with a single message).  

Then all of a sudden we hear about the spamming on
git.general.  After realizing that uga.tech was not
inactive (from the post on git.general), we found out
that uga.tech is UGA's version of git.oit.questions!
Apparently the UGA posts were restricted to local view
only.  We had no idea the newsgroup was used, and we 
were rather shocked to find out it was not a dead 
newsgroup.

We sincerely apologize to the University of Georgia
and to OIT (Georgia Tech).  We did not mean to do 
anything that would actually cause trouble, we simply
thought we were posting to a dead newsgroup.  

Finally, the explanation of how we posted, we simply
cross-posted everything to misc.test.  We would have
never spammed a newsgroup at UGA that we thought was
important to the school, we would not want to jeopardize
the school in anyway (we were just trying to have fun).


Once again we apologize!

The Grimstari are not some secretive hacker organization
that is out to conquer or destroy the internet.  We
are just a group of friends having fun.  We don't try
to hide our actions (everything we did is pretty
much discussed openly on our newsgroup git.talk.grimstari).
We in no way tried to hide our actions from the view of
authorities as we never felt anything we were doing would
adversely affect anyone.     

Finally so that you will know exactly who we are so that
you don't feel we are hiding behind (fake names):

These are the members of the Grimstari who actively
posted to uga.tech

Jeff Krug
Chris Madden
Mark Yohannan
Gary Yngyve
Scott Blum
John Kramer

Members who DID NOT have anything to do with UGA 
(but we don't want you to think we are hiding 
 people):

Dan Baisley
Anthony Guevara
Grant Michalski
John Bragelman

These people were in NO WAY involved in anything that
happened on uga.tech.

We really are sorry for what happened with uga.test,
and for the trouble we have caused Georgia Tech (OIT).

I hope this message helps to clear up a few things for
everone.

Sorry,
Jeff Krug, a member of the Grimstari
 
--
"Sorry, Sorry, please don't hurt me" -- TAO