Aduke.943
net.general
utzoo!decvax!duke!swd
Thu Aug 13 09:23:28 1981
more rumor rumors
Some random thoughts on the datamat!rumor article.

1) it did not enter the net at utzoo by having someone
   there run rnews to submit it.  If they had, utzoo
   would have seen the article.  If it entered at decvax,
   it would not have been sent to utzoo -- the anti loop
   code in news will not send an article to any system
   on the return path.  Since the article did show up at
   decvax, it entered the net there.

2) what probably happened is that someone on the west coast
   (Note the PDT in the date line) created the article
   and ran  uux - decvax!rnews <fake article.

3) there is no way to prevent this (short of an elaborate
   public key encryption scheme).