Subj : login trouble
To   : David Bowerman
From : Leonard Erickson
Date : Mon Oct 30 2000 06:08 pm

 -=> Quoting David Bowerman to Ian Moote <=-

 DB> Ian Moote wrote in a message to DAVID BOWERMAN:
 
 DB> Checking my archives, in Zone 1, no PCs based on uuencoded mail were
 DB> ever upheld.
 
 IM> I'd be interested in seeing these particular complaints so that I
 IM> can  see the reasons given. Is there some place on the Internet
 IM> that I can go  to download them? If not, would you be willing to
 IM> send them to my E-Mail  address? (diogenes@nas.net)

 DB> Not sure if I could send them.  They were from the time when I was
 DB> acting as an assistant to Bob Satti and was sent copies of
 DB> correspondence in a couple of cases.  Some of the others were in an
 DB> archive that was set up for the benefit of the RC/NCs and should be
 DB> around some systems still. 
 DB> Basically, Bob Satti didn't believe in complaints based on echomail
 DB> content unless there was clear evidence that deliberate attempts were
 DB> being made to be excessively annoying. Nor did he consider uuencoding
 DB> as encryption since the utilities to uudecode messages were commonly
 DB> available. 

Remember, this discussion started with regards to sysops redusing to
pass on uuencoded *netmail*. It may have been "echo-routed" but it was
still netmail, not echomail.

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