Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!ames!attctc!tlsi!Nanook
From: Nanook@tlsi.FIDONET.ORG (Keith Dickinson)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re:  Re: editing .newsrc
Message-ID: <1.24F046B6@tlsi.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 20 Aug 89 04:11:28 GMT
Organization: TLSI.Fidonet.Org: The DFW/Usenet Gateway
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In an article of <13 Aug 89 13:30:48 GMT>, Lawrence.Esker@tlsi.FIDONET.ORG (Lawrence Esker) writes:
 >Can someone explain the following message that acted as if I sent it.  I 
 >have
 >no idea wahat caused it or what I did.  Is this one of those 'forgeries' 
 >that
 >some people have talked about?
 >
 >
 >Article 50 of news.newusers.questions:
 >Path: 
 >abaa!eecae!tank!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!attctc
 >!tlsi!Lawrence.Esker
 >From: Lawrence.Esker@tlsi.FIDONET.ORG (Lawrence Esker)
 >Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
 >Subject: Re:  Re: editing .newsrc
 >Message-ID: <428.24E71AB9@tlsi.FIDONET.ORG>
 >Date: 13 Aug 89 13:30:48 GMT
 >Organization: TLSI.Fidonet.Org: The DFW/Usenet Gateway
 >Lines: 9
 >

Yes... My machine puked during a powerdown. It sent out 4 news messages with no content 'borrowning' the user name off of the last message in that news area.

I've taken steps to prevent it from occuring again. (I hope).

Sorry for the inconvience.
Keith Dickinson


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