From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!alb Newsgroups: net.general,net.news Title: Huh? Backslashes?? Article-I.D.: alice.1514 Posted: Sat Feb 19 07:30:22 1983 Received: Sun Feb 20 10:14:31 1983 Take a look at hp-pcd.688 and hp-pcd.689 -- The addresses are: ...!hp-pcd!kirk\!russ The articles are from notesfiles, most probably explaining why the address doesn't match the Article-I.D. (or it may just be a very poor attempt at forgery), but why are the backslashes in there? I have not tried responding back along that path.