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Date:      Sat, 10 Jul 1999 15:55:43 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: a BSD identd 
Message-ID:  <199907102155.PAA33197@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Jul 1999 19:33:09 -0000." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907101932170.16680-100000@penelope.skunk.org> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907101932170.16680-100000@penelope.skunk.org>  

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907101932170.16680-100000@penelope.skunk.org> Ben Rosengart writes:
: I used to run a public shell machine, and one of my users cracked
: someone else's site.  Identd made it much easier to figure out who the
: problem user was.

Unfortunately, I've seen the dark side of identd which makes me *HATE*
it with a passion.  There have been several places that I worked that
ran identd, but from which I never sent mail from.  The spammers
started hitting me there....  They got the address from the ident
replies....

From this, I'm *NEVER* going to run a identd that gives out real
names....  Hence "Warm-Fuzzy" in my fake script.

Warner


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