Re: Auto pgp-sign news hack

Article: 4538 of alt.hackers
From: set@oryx.llnl.gov (Sam Trenholme)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: Auto pgp-sign news hack
Date: 4 Apr 1995 08:41:51 GMT
Organization: LLNL Laser Modeling & Optimization
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Approved: Almost forgot this. Good thing ~/.article was still around.
Message-ID: 3lr0of$ib@lll-winken.llnl.gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: oryx.llnl.gov
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Status: RO

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Actually, the crossposting to comp.sources.misc actually getting posted
was a mistake... I *thought* Inews was smart enough to mail it to the
moderator instead of posting the article. I guess you can not
underestimate the stupidity of news programs.

I canceled the offending article upon realising the mistake, and emailed
the moderator an apology. He said he didn't feel it was a big deal, btw.

Well, USENET is an anarchy, and I guess the only answer to forged
cancels canceling forged approvals is to write a program that
checks a newsgroup for an article, and if it sees the article is
unavailable, reposts the article.

One of these days. Oh, I have so much vaporware in my head right now.

ObLameInewsHack:

Removing the offending code in Inews that limits sigs to 4 lines, allowing
me to have sigs as long as I want to get posted. No, I *wont* do
"finger smurf@soda.csua.berkeley.edu >> ~/.signature". The
joys of
compiling my own "trn".

That's a bit weak, how about....

ObPagerHack:

I wrote a small Turbo C program (120 lines) to page people. It either
accepts input in the form of "page 555-5555 555-0666", which
will page
the pager at 555-5555 with the phone number 555-0666, or "page jen",
which will page my friend Jen.

THis works on my PC with a Hayes Smartmodem 2400. I wonder if it could
work on a UNIX box w/ a modem, allowing someone to set up a page-server,
adding a filter to make sure the pager numbers it pages are local.

The command it sends to the modem is "ATDT<pager number>@<your
number>#".
Does anyone know if this format is universal?

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--
Sam Trenholme - Any views and beliefs are strictly my own, *not* LLNL's
 Low-security PGP ID:8551E401 Print:EE67AF30 B672659A 6E4F0E33 6F37884A
High-security PGP ID:02991DCD Print:F49C2183 787CBC49 717524ED 25CC90C9
See primes under <foo> in UNIX. Type this in your shell: awk
-F<foo> '\
BEGIN{while(++a<FS){for(b=i=1;i&&b<sqrt(a);)i=a%++b;if(i)printf
a" "}}'

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