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From: billw@killer.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Net userid forgery
Message-ID: <2239@killer.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Nov-87 16:09:08 EST
Article-I.D.: killer.2239
Posted: Sat Nov 28 16:09:08 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 1-Dec-87 03:16:17 EST
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Reply-To: billw@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner)
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In article <2208@killer.UUCP> billw@killer.UUCP (that's me) writes:
>> There are people that know all about the net and netiquette, but happen
>> to have no net contacts at the moment.

In article <7536@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
>Such people won't have anything useful to set the "From:" field to.

Wrong again. I can personally name at least three net sites that are mail-
only, and don't receive news. Many are even in the maps.

Someone else, I've no idea who:
>> . . .I have sometimes found myself [on another system] reading news over the
>> shoulder of a friend.  If I want to respond to an article, I get him
>> to respond, and diddle the header so it looks like it is from me. . .

Olson again:
>It's surely better to put more thought into the followup posting, and post it
>to the net when you're back at your home system (after, of course, checking
>that someone else hasn't already posted a followup that says what you want to
>say).

Oh, come on. By the time you're back at your own system you've probably lost
your train of thought, and anyway, there are hundreds of topics on this net
(cf. rec.all, talk.all) that don't take very much thought to respond to. Just
look at Rhonda Scribner. (And it's quite simple to dash off a response to ANY-
THING that is strictly factual. "How do I get news patch #10?")
-- 
Bill Wisner, HASA "A" Division		..{codas,ihnp4}!killer!billw
Feel disillusioned? I've got some great new illusions...