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Re: sendmail bug


Article: 7825 of alt.hackers
From: abc@spam.arg.com (Alan Clegg)
Newsgroups: alt.security,alt.hackers
Subject: Re: sendmail bug
Followup-To: alt.hackers
Date: 16 May 1995 12:42:40 GMT
Organization: American Research Group -- Cary, NC
Lines: 47
Approved: abc@arg.com (for alt.hackers)
Message-ID: 3pa6k1$4gc@redstone.interpath.net
NNTP-Posting-Host: spam.arg.com
Status: RO

Is it ironic [pathetic?] that somebody with a news system so poorly
configured as to put these headers together *AND* double up the
signature would be asking for info on how to break sendmail?

You would think that with accounts on ALL THOSE SYSTEMS he would at
least have posted from a site that was set up right...

Yawn...

In article <3p91tm$1q5@janus.cqu.edu.au>,
The Satch Miester <kearneyd@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE> wrote:
][ Article crossposted from alt.hackers ]
][ Author was The Satch Miester (kearneyd@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE) ]
][ Posted on 16 May 1995 02:15:58 GMT ]
]
]can someone please describe to me how the sendmail bug works???  I want to
]know what it actually does, so I can stop it.
]
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