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From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (Dave Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Forged postings.
Message-ID: <257650E3.15F6@rpi.edu>
Date: 1 Dec 89 10:22:26 GMT
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	<1989Nov26.223009.558@xenitec.on.ca>
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In <1989Nov26.223009.558@xenitec.on.ca> edhew@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) writes:

   As one of the people who send email to Peter, I would like to point
   out that the possibility that the article I was commenting on was a
   forgery was completely irrelevent to my response.

Quite.  Unless the article I am looking at appears to be completely
out of character for the poster, it doesn't even enter my mind that I
might be replying to a forgery.  I think I would just chuck it all in
and forget about USENET if I had to think that every posting is a
forgery and I should absolutely make sure before I respond to it as
though it were truly from the person the headers indicate.

"Ed, is that you?"

Dave
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