From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Re: KILLING a Poster rather than a Post
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:50:30 GMT
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In <1992Nov3.061712.26223@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:

>In article <1992Nov1.164254.22832@cbfsb.cb.att.com> sms@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (steven.m.stein) writes:
>>In article <MARTINC.92Oct31205617@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
>>>In article <1992Oct30.173836.22875@cbfsb.cb.att.com> sms@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (steven.m.stein) writes:
>>>
>>>   Does anyone know of a simple straight foward way of killing a
>>>   specific poster (to not read all post posted by a specific poster)
>>>   rather than only be subject???  
>>>
>>>Well, a .45 is pretty reliable but requires substantial skill to operate.
>>
>>Travel costs would be expensive.  Although, I'm sure there are people
>>out there who would be willing to finance the trips.  (plus a small
>>profit of course).  Time is money, and think of all the time it would
>>save not having to read through all of those unwanted posts.

>Now, wait a moment--when you send someone a note in e-mail, you don't
>hop on a plane, fly over to that person's desk, and hand that someone
>a disk with your message on it.  This is the information age--obviously
>the appropriate thing to do is to set up a number of local servers who
>would receive your requests, queue them for efficient delivery, and 
>transmit them to their intended recipients.

Yeah, exactly!  Distributed computing is the new thing, and it ought to
solve this nicely.  I know Charlie's host is connected, so I'll demonstrate:

Script started on Thu Nov  5 14:12:11 1992
dhostwo[71]% finger martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu
[grover.cs.unc.edu]

Login name: martinc                     In real life: Charles R. Martin
Directory: /theta/theta5/unc/martinc    Shell: /bin/csh
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dhostwo[72]% man nkill

NKILL(1)               Unix Man Pages                  NKILL(1)

NAME
     nkill - terminate a network user with extreme prejudice

SYNOPSIS
     nkill [ -how ] user@host ...
     nkill -l

DESCRIPTION
     nkill sends the most effective form of discouragement to the
     named network user by sending an RPC request to the remote
     nkilld(8).  The default method of 10KV electric shock via
     /dev/cattleprod may be overriden with command line arguments.
     Methods may be listed with the `nkill -l' form.  Only those
     truly logged in as root (or God, if the operating system is
     capable of this login) can ignore this event.  Entire sites
     may be killed by prefixing a domain name with an `@' sign.
     In this case, the effect is comparable to the effect of using
     genocide(1) utility.

EXAMPLES
     nkill fool@dumbshit.edu
     nkill -SHOOT idiot@silly.edu
     nkill @psuvm.psu.edu

SEE ALSO
     threaten(1), murder(1), suicide(1), genocide(1), nkill(2), nlive(2)

BUGS
     Killing a user may lead to unpleasant results in the presence
     of vacation mail handling.

     Killing an entire site may lead to overload of the nkill
     daemon.  When this happens, wait a few seconds for it to cool
     down and have another netnews poster try again.

     Not all sites implement the MERCIFULLY option.  What this says
     about the priorities of the implementors is unclear.

Unix Release             26 August 1992                        1

dhostwo[73]% nkill -l
BOMB STAB SHOOT STRANGLE SUFFOCATE BLUDGEON LETHAL_INJECTION POISON
POLITICALLY SLOWLY QUICKLY PAINFULLY MERCIFULLY QUIETLY

dhostwo[74]% nkill -POLITICALLY martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu
Connecting to nkill daemon ...
Connected.
Sending kill request ...
nkilld: Sure, I didn't like him, anyway ...
nkilld: "Hey Charlie, Clinton just won the election, and he's gonna
         have Carter as a senior adviser."
nkilld: "aaaaaaaaaaaaugh!!!  (wump)"
nkilld: kill request successful
Connection terminated.
dhostwo[75]% exit
script done on Thu Nov  5 14:17:22 1992

Rob T
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