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From: msw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Matt S Wartell)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Results of sci.aquaria vote
Summary: strong evidence for vote fraud at pitt.edu
Keywords: sci.aquaria pitt.edu vote fraud
Message-ID: <20658@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 89 08:16:25 GMT
References: <21910@gryphon.COM> <3329@watale.waterloo.edu> <5066@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: msw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Matt S Wartell)
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Lines: 70

Greg Woods writes:
>>vms.cis.pitt.edu	YES:  22	NO:   0
>   The Pitt site doesn't surprise me in the least. There is a user there who
>has a personal vendetta against me because I had the audacity to use the word
>"damn" once in a message to him and offended his delicate sensitivities. 
>I even got mail from one person there who said he was voting for it solely
>on the basis that I was opposed to it.

I noticed a peculiar regularity in the names coming from pitt.edu
so I did a little checking.  All of the logins below were counted
as valid votes in the sci.aquaria vote.

vms.cis.pitt.edu$ finger droopy fireman1 charging advisor

DROOPY (Jeff Carpenter) is not logged in
	Last logged in: Friday, 10-Nov-1989 18:10
FIREMAN1 (Jeff Carpenter) is not logged in
	Last logged in: Friday, 10-Nov-1989 15:25
CHARGING (Jeffrey,J Carpenter) is not logged in
	Last logged in: Wednesday, 25-Oct-1989 19:20
ADVISOR (Test Query Account) is not logged in.
	Last logged in: Wednesday 25-Oct-1989 19:20

{the vms cluster is the main computer at pitt with student
logins of the form ...st[1-9]  Our last school year
ended in late april of 1989.  Mr. Carpenter has at least
some system privileges on the vms system}

vms.cis.pitt.edu$ finger {many names}

ABEST (Ann,B Edson) is not logged in.
	Last logged in: Wednesday, 7-Dec-1988 10:00
DMNST (Dawn,M Nance) is not logged in.
	Last logged in: Thursday, 15-Dec-1988 13:46
DMWST3 (Diane,M Williams) is not logged in.
	Last logged in: Wednesday, 26-Apr-1989 12:10
KDHST2 (Kelly,D Hollis) is not logged in.
	Last logged in: Thursday, 13-Apr-1989 13:31
MAPST9 (Margaret,A Poodolak) is not logged in.
	Last logged in: Tuesday, 18-Apr-1989 12:22
SSHST (Stacy,S Hunter) is not logged in.
	Last logged in: Sunday, 23-Apr-1989 22:29
YKOST (Yoshiko, Koda) is not logged in.
	Last logged in: Wednesday, 7-Dec-1988 15:30

{fire.cis.pitt.edu is Mr. Carpenter's personal unix workstation}

unix.cis.pitt.edu% finger britt@fire ed@fire bricker@fire

[fire.cis.pitt.edu]
Login name: britt     			In real life: Tom Britt
Directory: /usr/users/guest         
Last login Sun Oct 29 21:22 on tty04
Project: What am I working on?
No Plan.

Login name: ed        			In real life: Ed Kamphaus
Directory: /usr/users/guest         
Last login Sun Oct 29 21:22 on tty04
Project: What am I working on?
No Plan.

Login name: bricker   			In real life: Randy Bricker
Directory: /usr/users/guest         
Last login Sun Oct 29 21:22 on tty04
Project: What am I working on?
No Plan.

-- 
matt wartell, university of pittsburgh             msw@unix.cis.pitt.edu