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From: mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com (Mark Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: The Moderator Who Doesn't Give A Sh*t
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Date: 13 Feb 91 20:58:15 GMT
References: <1991Feb13.124536.1625@chinet.chi.il.us> <74436@bu.edu.bu.edu> <1991Feb11.185846.20778@lavaca.uh.edu> <4672@prussian9.UUCP>
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laird@chinet.chi.il.us (Laird J. Heal) writes:
|In article <4672@prussian9.UUCP> dogar@motcid.UUCP (Haroon H. Dogar) writes:
|>>In article <74436@bu.edu.bu.edu> 
|>
|>Um... are y'all sure the "Townson" (T. Moderator) posting wasn't a forgery?
|>Isn't Pat from Chicago (doesn't his mail originate at Northwestern University
|>in Evanston?)?
| 
|yes, the Message-ID of 74436@bu.edu.bu.edu gives it away and if I had any
|connection with EFF and this newsgroup I would have canceled it immediately.

And Laird might have been mistaken to do so. I sent mail to
uunet!bu.edu!cs!ptownson@cs.utexas.edu (yeah, so I mixed bangs and ats, so
what?) and it got to Pat, who sent me a (courteous) reply from his 
Northwestern address.

It would take a *very* good spoofer to beat that, methinks.


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