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Re: flash


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu (Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu)
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1994 18:44:20 +22306356


On Mon, 22 Aug 1994 10:53:59 EDT, you said:
At 10:03 PM 8/18/94, Timothy Newsham wrote:

If you are concerned about people sending bad things to your screen
then you should also take a look at syslogd which allows anyone to send
a message to all users logged in (talkd only lets you disrupt one
person at a time).
Why would you want to do that?  Then you would hose your session as well, rig
ht?

Any lamer that forgets to say 'mesg n' to protect himself before using
syslogd to hose everybody, *deserves* to get hosed himself.

"Consider it evolution in action..."

/Valdis



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