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Ghostwolf (krug@angband.gt.ed.net) wrote:

What did they do to  make you write this? 

Hormuz


: 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

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