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Re: New sendsys bomb - jgd@dixie.com

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From: Greg Woods
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 17:06
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In article <a_rubin.720402705@dsg4.dse.beckman.com> a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin) writes:
>In <1992Oct29.222731.11996@claven.ucar.edu> woods@claven.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) writes:
>
>>It's pretty clear that someone telnetted to the NNTP port on 
>>sol.ctr.columbia.edu to do this.
>
>It could be a legitimate user on a system near sol.ctr.columbia.edu, as
>well as anyone else on the common path. 

That point is well taken, but my point is that as long as the NNTP server
on sol.ctr.columbia.edu is wide open, there is no way for us to know
what *really* happened.

--greg
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gumby!destroyer!ncar!claven!woods
References: <26966@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1992Oct29.222731.11996@claven.ucar.edu> <a_rubin.720402705@dsg4.dse.beckman.com>

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From: woods@claven.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Subject: Re: New sendsys bomb - jgd@dixie.com
Message-ID: <1992Oct30.170600.8040@claven.ucar.edu>
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR Boulder, CO
References: <26966@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1992Oct29.222731.11996@claven.ucar.edu> <a_rubin.720402705@dsg4.dse.beckman.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 17:06:00 GMT
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