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From: steve@crcmar.crc.uucp (Steve Ardron)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,soc.men,soc.women,soc.motss,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Flamage re Mark Ethan Smith/Netiquette
Message-ID: <594@crcmar.crc.uucp>
Date: 21 Jan 88 15:00:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: crcmar.594
Posted: Thu Jan 21 10:00:03 1988
References: <229*manis@instr.camosun.bcc.cdn> <6466@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <1841@epimass.EPI.COM>
Organization: CRC, Ottawa CANADA
Lines: 20
Summary: forged forgeries

In article <1841@epimass.EPI.COM>, jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
> In article <31O8@killer.UUCP> era@killer.UUCP (Mark Ethan Smith) writes:
> 
> The article I'm following up to is a forgery.  Note the Message-ID: it
> has an O instead of a zero in the number.

It seems to me that some of these "forgeries" might not be forgeries. There
have been enough postings pointing out the O as opposed to 0 errors that
any forger would have to know about it, and yet they keep occuring. Also, it
is significantly easier to type 0 than O so I find it hard to see the 
mistake being made in the first place.

I am reluctant to get into this MES flame stuff as I don't know the background,
but it looks to me as though he/she is using the "forgeries" to make postings
without any blame being attached, especially since he/she was the first to
bring it up about article numbers.

					  Stevie.

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