Aunc.1039
net.general,NET.general
utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!smb
Mon Aug 10 20:14:18 1981
The truth about datamat!rumor
The address is not garbled; it must be fraudulent.  We talked that
one over when we were designing netnews, and decided not to worry
until the problem actually arose....  Anyway, an article went out
around August 1 that was a keyed-in version of an item that supposedly
will appear in Datamation.  The address on it really is utzoo!datamat!rumor,
I'm afraid -- which could occur in only the following fashion: (a) a
superuser at a site that talks to you temporarily genned itself a netnews
that believed its site name was "datamat", added a userid named "rumor",
and submitted the article; (b) a superuser at your site submitted the
article, then reached in to the uucp spool file and changed the header;
(c) a superuser at some site somewhere dialed in to decvax and sent
them a news file prepared either by mechanism (a) or (b).  Plainly,
someone did not want to take responsibility for having keyed the thing
in -- probably for fear of angering Datamation.