Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-k Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:ag5 From: ag5@pucc-k (Henry C. Mensch) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Objection to annonymous postings Message-ID: <639@pucc-k> Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 22:51:07 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-k.639 Posted: Tue Nov 27 22:51:07 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Nov-84 03:07:54 EST References: <1875@nsc.UUCP> Organization: Tower Acres Pleasure Center Lines: 42 <<>> wendya@apollo.uucp (Wendy Alberts) writes: >On a related subject of somewhat lesser importance... >I also object to the gratuitous alteration of header information, even when >such alteration seems innocuous or just silly, rather than indicating any >real attempt to conceal one's true identity. >Examples: (Leo Buscaglia @ your nearest bookstore) > (Dish of the Day @ The Restaurant at the End of the Universe) > (? @ inside a linked list) I am also disturbed by your use of gratuituous (spelled correctly or otherwise) here. If you will take a moment to notice my userid, you will see that it is somewhat lacking in personality. There is *NO WAY* that ag5 suggests that this account belongs to Henry Mensch (or anyone else). In addition, the path from this pucc site gets sufficiently munged-up by the time it leaves Purdue that it becomes useless. By playing with those environment variables, I am able to make my posting reflect a bit more of my personality. (For your information, the original settings which came with this userid are NAME='mensch' ; ORGANIZATION='Purdue University Computing Center'). In addition, since much of the path header information is useless, I do provide an informative signature file which indicates not only a correct path, but my name, position, place of employment, backbone sites which feed to our immediate "up-stream" site, and a pithy quote. All this in five lines or so. I am not doing anything malicious like munging the header so that articles are posted from kgbvax and the landofoz-vax. Since what I do with NAME and ORGANIZATION variables is harmless, and since I do identify all of my postings with a .signature at the end, I see no reason why I should *not* change these variables to suit my desires. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry C. Mensch | User Confuser | Purdue University User Services {ihnp4|decvax|ucbvax|seismo|allegra|cbosgd|harpo}!pur-ee!pucc-i!ag5 ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Season's Beatings!" ;-}