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From: gam@netcom.UUCP (Gordon Moffett)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Help me, I'm out of control
Message-ID: <4275@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 89 06:04:13 GMT
References: <7013@ficc.uu.net> <20674@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
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Reply-To: gam@netcom.UUCP (Gordon Moffett)
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In a forged article <7013@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (someone
claiming to be Peter da Silva) writes:
# 
# >won't have any big problems and the net, as we know it, does
# >not cease to exist. Maybe my wife is right, and maybe I do need
# >to spend some time away from the net to get some perspective.
# 
In <20674@unix.cis.pitt.edu> tjw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Terry J. Wood) writes:
# Yea, next someone who looks like you will come home.  However, it will
# not be you.  No, it will be a FORGERY!  However, your wife can check
# you article number and tell if it's in the range you were issued in
# the morning. 

There is an interesting leap from Peter's previous article,
<6985@ficc.uu.net>, the last one out of ficc.uu.net, and this one.
Articles from ficc.uu.net are usually more frequent than that.
Good guess, though.

Doesn't this mean that the *real* article <7013@ficc.uu.net> won't get
broadcast around the net, because most sites will think they already
have it?  One of the costs of effective forgeries ....


Gordon Moffett