Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!husc6!paperboy!coren@speed From: coren@speed (Robert Coren) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Two apparent forgeries Message-ID: <1076@paperboy.OSF.ORG> Date: 2 Oct 89 21:09:42 GMT References: <2235@stl.stc.co.uk> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Reply-To: coren@osf.org Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 20 From article <2235@stl.stc.co.uk>, by dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright): > In article <6348@pt.cs.cmu.edu> spok@gs6.sp.cs.cmu.edu (John Ockerbloom) writes: > #A few days ago, a blank article with this signature appeared ... > > From time to time either blank postings or (worse) followups containing the > whole original article but no further comment appear on the net. I wondered > how people could be so dumb, till I did it myself :-) (fortunately I noticed > and cancelled it). [followed by explanation of how a misfeature of vi can cause blank articles] No, there is something else going on here. These articles have attributions with the names of real people, but generally not with those people's correct login IDs. (Another instance was just cited on another newsgroup that I attend.) Hard to see how somebody's erroneous software could be doing that all by itself. Looks more like somebody is doing some clumsy experiments. Whatever it is, it would be nice if it would stop. Robert