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Re: DejaNews and sff.net
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 22 Oct 1998 15:15:51 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.*spamcake*org
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> But if someone runs an NNRP server (I think that's the right terminology--?)
> and acts as a normal NNTP client, then theoretically no problems will arise.
> I think this is what Matt M. is looking into...(?)
Right. But, the other Bad Thing (TM) someone could do is to make their NNRP
server also post all messages to a different server. So it pulls down news
from LUGnet, and automatically posts those messages to a different, public
server. (You'd have to send out a newgrp message too, of course.) Suddenly,
LUGnet becomes a public hierarchy. This is what Sarah is concerned about.
In fact, this is _very_ non-difficult -- the first time I configured a news
server to get feeds from two places, I made this configuration mistake
without thinking. Which is probably part of what's happening with sff.net's
private hierarchy -- not necessarily people being intentionally evil.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| (...) Sarah, Wow, thanks for the info. Now I'm extra glad that From-line validation exists. I don't think it is a problem if someone mirrored these groups in a read-only manner (and it's probably not a bad idea to have mirrored somewhere anyway) but (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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