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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Net userid forgery
Message-ID: <1574@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 11:27:36 EST
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.1574
Posted: Mon Nov 23 11:27:36 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Nov-87 02:10:23 EST
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
Lines: 14
Summary: not a serious problem
Xref: mnetor news.admin:1419 news.sysadmin:488

In article <25760HD6@PSUVMA> HD6@PSUVMA.BITNET writes:
>an episode in which user or users unknown attempted to pass themselves off
>as another user (Rhonda Scribner). 
>...I decided that the problem was sufficiently serious to cross-
>post to news.admin and news.sysadmin.

I don't think this particular case is a serious problem.  I saw some
fake articles with Rhonda Scribner's name on them, but it was obvious
that they originated elsewhere, because they all had a Sender: field
with a different user id.  In fact the ability to add an arbitrary
From: field is useful because it allows a guest user to post under his
or her own name.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi