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From: mcooper@acamar.usc.edu (Michael A. Cooper)
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Subject: Re: Somebody said that they could find a bogus poster
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Date: 18 Oct 89 19:32:20 GMT
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In article <none> fred@flinstones.com writes:
>
>	Somebody a while ago said that they could locate a poster of a bogus
>message, so I decided to try and see.  Note that I have no malicious, libelous,
>or slanderous intentions, nor do I intend to abuse netland.  I just have an
>inexplicable need to meet a challenge that is thrown down, and now I am making
>my attempt to run the gauntlet of detection.  If you can email me, letting me
>know that I was found, I would be very appreciative, and indeed know that it
>is impossible to evade identification.  If you do succeed, however, I beg of
>you not to attempt to have my News Administrator revoke my news priviledges,
>for I am normally a productive user of the News system, and would hate to lose
>my access to this interesting forum.
>

Sigh.  I hate dealing with this kind of BS, but it would be
irresponsible to ignore this kind of activity.  So I spent about 45
minutes of my time tracking down the culprit.  I have been able to
determine that identity of "fred@flinstones.com" is a Computer Science
student here at USC by the name of Dennis Griffin.  His email address
is griffin@girtab.usc.edu.  Please keep flames small and concise so
that our mail gateway doesn't get slagged.

I've notified him letting him know that he didn't get away with
anything.  Since we haven't had any problems with this person before
and because no direct harm was done, he was issued a warning.  If we
have any further problems from him for most any violation of our USC
Computing Policies, he will suffer some severe disciplinary actions.

	Mike Cooper
	Usenet Administrator for USC

Michael A. Cooper, University Computing Services, U of Southern California
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