Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!billw 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 References: <1574@bsu-cs.UUCP> <7535@elsie.UUCP> <2208@killer.UUCP> <8030@ism780c.UUCP> <7536@elsie.UUCP> Reply-To: billw@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner) Organization: HASA Lines: 29 Xref: utgpu news.admin:1280 news.sysadmin:433 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...