nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (11/18/89)
Has anyone run nntpxfer under C news? I did it last night, and everything it "xfer"ed got posted with my .signature and a Sender: header. Of course it also got forwarded to all the usual places, which in my case is rpi.edu and uunet.uu.net. *Fortunately* it didn't mung the message-ids, so it's likely that none of these escaped from Clarkson. But what can I do to ensure that this doesn't happen next time? -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee. A recession now appears more than 2 years away -- John D. Mathon, 4 Oct 1989. I think killing is value-neutral in and of itself. -- Gary Strand, 8 Nov 1989.
fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) (11/19/89)
Nntpxfer probably got your NAME and the location of your .signature file from your environment, which of course is inherited by relaynews (or whatever the relevant C news program is).
bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) (11/21/89)
In article <7229@cs.utexas.edu> fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) writes:
Nntpxfer probably got your NAME and the location of your .signature
file from your environment, which of course is inherited by
relaynews (or whatever the relevant C news program is).
This sort of thing isn't C News' fault - it happened to "me" a couple
of years ago under B 2.11.something. I ran an expire in a uid-0 shell
that was carrying my environment around with me, and when all the
locally-posted articles that had accumulated during the expire were
processed, they had my name attached. One of "my" articles described,
in some considerable detail, "my" ...er... activites in pursuit of
"my" ...er... alternative lifestyle over the previous several years.
I got mail from several folks with content ranging from "I think a bug
bit you" to "I never would have guessed :-)". It was all quite funny,
though a little embarassing.
Since then, I have performed all such tasks in a separate window,
under the "root" login and the motto "Safe Sysadmin" :-)