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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
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Posted: Tue Nov 27 22:51:07 1984
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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.

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