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From: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Minix, Unix on the Amiga, and flames on AmigaDOS braindamage...
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Date: 11 Aug 89 12:12:48 GMT
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In-reply-to: chas@gtss.gatech.edu's message of 10 Aug 89 13:43:16 GMT


On 10 Aug 89 13:43:16 GMT,
chas@gtss.gatech.edu (Charles Cleveland) said:
Charles> Summary: forgery alert

Charles> Since some people are apparently still unaware of it,
Charles> forgeries are spewing out of mamab all over the net.  I
Charles> suggest you respond to nothing from that site.  Deven has
Charles> already been hit three times by this character, who has been
Charles> very busy lately.

Three times?  I've only noticed the one in comp.sys.amiga.tech here.
Where else?  [email]

Charles> The "Machine in Mark's Bedroom" gets a uucp feed from libcmp,
Charles> it looks like.  Perhaps some of the offended parties should
Charles> get in touch with the postmaster there.  If these posting are
Charles> really coming from libcmp!mamab, he ought to have his wires
Charles> cut.  Same for FIDONET, but I don't know how that works.

It has been suggested that it could be messed up gateway software
causing the messages, and not intentional forgeries.  Whether this is
true or not, I don't know, but regardless, I don't like it.  (To mung
messages that badly would take some *seriously* broken software...)

Charles> Until then, ignore the creep.

Agreed.

Deven
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