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From: dave@compnect.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Bogus control -- need I do anything?
Summary: <sigh> Here we go again...
Message-ID: <782@compnect.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 90 23:37:24 GMT
References: <1990Sep12.180429.4305@barsoom.nhh.no>
Distribution: news
Organization: John Core at home, Harrisburg,PA
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In article <1990Sep12.180429.4305@barsoom.nhh.no>, tih@barsoom.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo) writes:
> OK, so this batch of news just came in, with the following message in it:
> 
> > Path: nuug!sunic!mcsun!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!hero!Donotello
> > From: Donotello@teenage.mutant.ninja.turtles.home
                     --------------------------------
Now HERE's a dead givaway--------^

> > Subject: morons R us

Yep, they sure are...

> > Message-ID: <9999999999999999999teenage.0000@nowhere.uucp>

WOW! Now THAT'S an interesting ID.. Musta used pi for the key..

> > Sender: news@milton.u.washington.edu

This looks like the only legit thing in the whole header.

> > Lines: 0

Intelligence: 0

> > Cancel: <1000Sep99.000000.0000@teenage.mutant.ninja.turtles.home>

Yeah..... Right....

> I'm new to Cnews, and the documentation isn't too detailed...  Since this
> is obviously a forgery (and seemingly a pretty poor one at that), am I
> right in assuming that no damage has been done, and I can simply ignore it?

Frame it and hang it on the wall. It's worthless for anything else. That's 
why Cnews kicked it out and let you know about it. My Bnews did the same 
thing. 

> Comments appreciated!

Well, BIFF is back and now this.... Can alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork be far
behind? Kiddies are back at the old .edu machines again....

> -tih
> -- 
> Tom Ivar Helbekkmo, NHH, Bergen, Norway.  Telephone: +47-5-959205
> tih@barsoom.nhh.no, thelbekk@norunit.bitnet, edb_tom@debet.nhh.no

       *>> Dave <<*

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