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From: ado@elsie.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Net userid forgery
Message-ID: <7535@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 16:02:27 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 23 16:02:27 1987
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Summary: suppositions

> . . .the ability to add an arbitrary From: field is useful because it
> allows a guest user to post under his or her own name.

Nope.  If a user is going to be on a system for such a short time that they
don't warrant their own account, they're not going to have the time to
read the netiquette document and learn when it is and isn't appropriate to
post articles.
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