Apur-ee.148
net.news
utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!root
Mon Oct 12 17:07:13 1981
Re: ethical query
I see no problems advertising who you send news to, or who you get it
from.  Thus, the names in the .sys file are probably fair game.

However, what purpose does sending out the output of "uuname" command
serve?  Does it fill in holes in Usenet map?  That information is in
the .sys (or sys for B-news) file, NOT in "uuname".  Just because someone
communicates with another site using uucp, doesn't mean that anyone
NOT on that system should be able to find out that information.  With
the openness of uucp and news at present, anyone at any system could
(by sending the "special article") get the names of all connected-to
systems and use their "real" money funds to transfer files/etc. over
thought-to-be private links.

I vote YES to "sys" file information but NO to "uuname" output.

               Art Feather

-----------------------------------------------------------------
gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen <[email protected]>
of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/


This Usenet Oldnews Archive
article may be copied and distributed freely, provided:

1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles.

2. The following notice remains appended to each copy:

The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996
Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.

You are viewing proxied material from gopher.quux.org. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.