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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
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Subject: Re: Tired of bogus subject lines?
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Date: 11 Sep 89 20:38:24 GMT
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tombre@weissenburger.crin.fr (Karl Tombre) writes:
Karl> It seems most likely to me that this conf is part of his
Karl> "speaking tour", and hence the article posted in his name most
Karl> probably is a forgery.

Well, why don't we just sit back and wait for Spaf to tell us?  Right,
maybe he won't.  Rick Adams never confirmed or denied here the
cojecture regarding a possibly forged newgroup of talk.bizarre.nice.
But just because Spaf has gone on a speaking tour doesn't mean he
couldn't have made the posting ...

In <1654@unocss.UUCP> fritz@unocss.UUCP (Tim Russell) writes:
Tim> Upon comparing paths of the "offending" post and Spaf's monthly
Tim> ones, I too have come to the conclusion that this is yet another
Tim> NNTP forgery.  I'm sorry for acting so hastily, and I should have
Tim> known Spaf was better than to suggest such a flagrant abuse of
Tim> net policy.

The Path here indicates no immediately apparent foul play.  It got
here via purdue -> tut -> gem -> rpi.  No other machines were
involved, and there are well-established links between these.

By the way, I've never seen any net policy document which would have
labeled that a flagrant abuse.  RFCs are about the closest we come
anyway.  Oh, you mean some sort of generally understood behaviour for
USENET participants?  Gosh, maybe we should set up some sort of cabal
to decide just what that is.  Anyone want to start a mailing list for
the bigger sites, the ones that sort of form a backbone for this whole
operation?  It seems to be an idea whose time has come [ ... and gone.]

Dave

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