IRC and Security

Hannu Napari napo at vipunen.hut.fi
Thu Mar 14 05:20:06 AEST 1991


In article <7748 at uceng.UC.EDU> pmartin at uceng.UC.EDU (Paul Martin) writes:
>We have removed
>IRC because of the problems that I described above.  I urge all administrators
>who are interested in preventing unauthorized use of their system and who
>have IRC installed, to re-evauluate their desision to keep IRC.  To illustrate
>the point of IRC being used by those with nothing better to do with their
>time I have enclosed a copy of a message posted to alt.irc which describes
>a plan to use the internet for fantasy role playing games:

On this basis you should remove talk, smtp, nntp...

--
Napo    $ Today I am / a small blue thing / Made of china / made of glass
(leon)  $ I am cool and smooth and curious / I never blink / I am turning
        $ in your hand / Turning in your hand / small blue thing
        $



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