Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!cvl!elsie!ado
From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Net userid forgery
Message-ID: <7536@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 12:26:59 EST
Article-I.D.: elsie.7536
Posted: Thu Nov 26 12:26:59 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 16:48:12 EST
References: <1574@bsu-cs.UUCP> <7535@elsie.UUCP> <2208@killer.UUCP> <8030@ism780c.UUCP>
Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
Lines: 22
Summary: Nope
Xref: mnetor news.admin:1437 news.sysadmin:500

> > > . . .the ability to add an arbitrary From: field is useful
> > > because it allows a guest user to post under his or her own name.

> > . . .If a user is going to be on a system for such a short time that
> > they don't warrant their own account, they're not going to have the time
> > to. . .learn when it is and isn't appropriate to post articles.

> There are people that know all about the net and netiquette, but happen
> to have no net contacts at the moment.

Such people won't have anything useful to set the "From:" field to.

> . . .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. . .

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).
-- 
ado%elsie.uucp@ncifcrf.gov	ADO and Elsie are Ampex and Borden trademarks