Aduke.929 net.general utzoo!decvax!duke!trt Tue Aug 11 00:09:00 1981 More Truth about datamat!rumor ANYONE can fake the origin of a news article. Just run "rnews" with a syntactically correct article on stdin. Thus, a user at unc could type: rnews << 'EOF' Ayorktown.123 net.general yorktown!smith EOF The article will have a contributor-line of "...!unc!yorktown!smith". The news README.ms documentation mentions this possibility, and suggests public-key encryption as a cure. Tom Truscott