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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Net userid forgery
Message-ID: <8030@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 05:21:34 EST
Article-I.D.: ism780c.8030
Posted: Tue Nov 24 05:21:34 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Nov-87 23:09:26 EST
References: <1574@bsu-cs.UUCP> <7535@elsie.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <7535@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
< > . . .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.

Often, they will have read the document on another machine.  For instance,
I have sometimes found myself at a terminal at Caltech reading news over
the shoulder of a friend.  If I want to respond to an article, I get him
to respond, and diddle the header so it looks like it is from me at ISC
rather than someone at Caltech.
-- 
Tim Smith, Knowledgian		{sdcrdcf,uunet}!ism780c!tim
				tim@ism780c.isc.com