Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!attctc!tlsi!Nanook From: Nanook@tlsi.FIDONET.ORG (Keith Dickinson) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Two apparent forgeries Message-ID: <1273.252662F1@tlsi.FIDONET.ORG> Date: 1 Oct 89 04:45:02 GMT Organization: TLSI.Fidonet.Org: The DFW/Usenet Gateway Lines: 47 In an article of <29 Sep 89 21:10:19 GMT>, spok@gs6.sp.cs.cmu.edu (John Ockerbloom) writes: >A few days ago, a blank article with this signature appeared on >rec.arts.misc: > >>--+--+ +------+ Internet: Steve.Saroff.lac00001@tlsi.FIDONET.ORG >> | | | | UUCP : ...!attctc!tlsi!Steve.Saroff.lac00001 >> | | +---+ | Note : TLSI is a FREE gateway for mail between >> | | | | : Usenet and Fidonet. For more informations >> + +----+---+ + : write to root@tlsi or attctc!tlsi!root >>TLSI: The Hard Drive Specialists - (214) 263-0707. We repair most >brands. > >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] >>--+--+ +------+ Internet: Charley.Wingate@tlsi.FIDONET.ORG >> | | | | UUCP : ...!attctc!tlsi!Charley.Wingate >> | | +---+ | Note : TLSI is a FREE gateway for mail between >> | | | | : Usenet and Fidonet. For more informations >> + +----+---+ + : write to root@tlsi or attctc!tlsi!root >>TLSI: The Hard Drive Specialists - (214) 263-0707. We repair most >brands. > >Anybody from TLSI (or who knows the origins of these posts) >want to explain what's going on? > >John Ockerbloom Yes.. My machine was having a nervous breakdown. It would take a name from some other message and tack it on to an empty message going outbound. Since I believe the problem is power related, I've ordered a UPS that should be here in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, please ignore any "empty" messages that you see coming from my system (assuming Texas P&L continues using my system for a surge endurance test bed! :) Keith Dickinson ROOT@TLSI --- msged 1.99S ZTC * Origin: TLSI: The DFW/Usenet Gateway (1:124/2202) -- Fidonet : 124/2202 [(214) 399-0094 PEP] | TLSI is a FREE gateway Internet: nanook@TLSI.Fidonet.Org | for Fidonet. For more or : nanook@f124.n2202.z1.Fidonet.Org | information on how to UUCP : attctc!tlsi!nanook | send/recieve mail write USnail : 2725 W. Pioneer #208, Irving Tx. 75061| to attctc!tlsi!nanook