Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!uwm.edu!wuarchive!texbell!attctc!jolnet!dattier From: dattier@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (David W. Tamkin) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Two apparent forgeries Summary: problems at TLSI Message-ID: <1641@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> Date: 30 Sep 89 15:29:42 GMT References: <957.252267FF@tlsi.FIDONET.ORG> <6348@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: dattier@jolnet.UUCP (David W. Tamkin) Followup-To: news.misc Organization: Jolnet Public Access Unix Lines: 31 John Ockerbloom wrote in <6348@pt.cs.cmu.edu> about the blank articles coming out of TLSI with other people's names: | A few days ago, a blank article with this signature appeared on rec.arts.misc: | | [standard TLSI .signature with Steve Saroff's name inserted] | | Steve Saroff later wrote back that he had not posted it and had no | knowledge of who had. | | Just now, a similar article attributed to Charley Wingate | (normally mangoe@mimsy.umd.edu) appeared on talk.religion.misc: | | [blank body] | [standard TLSI .signature with Charley Wingate's name inserted] | | Anybody from TLSI (or who knows the origins of these posts) | want to explain what's going on? Keith Dickinson of TLSI has apologized for these before, but apparently his software still isn't under control. Mark Woodruff (who runs mamab) has also had this problem. It would be easier on all of us if, until he gets it fixed, Dickinson could at least shorten the six-line default .signature it is picking up to something much briefer: one line or even null if possible. David Tamkin dattier@jolnet.orpk.il.us {attctc,netsys,ddsw1}!jolnet!dattier P. O. Box 813 Rosemont, Illinois 60018-0813 (312) 693-0591 (708) 518-6769 BIX: dattier GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN CIS: 73720,1570 Jolnet is a public access system, where every user expresses personal opinions.