Xref: utzoo news.groups:13792 news.admin:7388 news.misc:3757 talk.bizarre:39671 alt.flame:11734 Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin,news.misc,talk.bizarre,alt.flame Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: forgery (was Re: Important announcement) Message-ID: <1989Oct31.002813.7951@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <6037@tank.uchicago.edu> <21593@gryphon.COM> <212@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 89 00:28:13 GMT In article <212@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> Dave Sill writes: >... Perhaps if we (the set of all USENET administrators) >knew how postings were forged, we'd know how to stop forgeries... Nope. The problem is not fixable. It is marginally practical, at quite considerable cost, for moderated groups -- we looked at doing this in C News, although our conclusion was "too much hassle" -- but just isn't possible otherwise. -- A bit of tolerance is worth a | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology megabyte of flaming. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu