Subj : Echo Hijacking
To   : George Pope
From : Todd Sullivan
Date : Wed Nov 26 2003 07:32 pm

"Yousa no worry.  Meesa fix," Jar-Jar said to Jedi Knights George Pope
and all, who looked at each other in resignation.

 GP> That's all I can think to call it -- one of my echoes (MENS_ISSUES)
 GP> seems to have been linked up to an internet newsgroup, in such a way
 GP> that even my regular postings are converted to Usenet format (ie.
 GP> "To:ALL") :|

 GP> How? What? But? Why? :(

 GP> This seems a clear abuse of Fidonet, am I right?

Apparently, someone thought it was the same as the newsgroup; all you have
to do is locate whoever's gating and ask them to stop.

As for an abuse of Fido, all they did is gate without permission.  It's
rude, but not illegal.

We had a discussion about this sort of thing before, either here, or in
another echo - I keep thinking Z1BACKBONE or Z1_BACKBONE.  There wasn't
really a concensus, so I suppose it's still undecided.

Todd Sullivan

.... "I've no doubt too busy having other things stroked..." <EG> - Joost

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