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From: oleg@quad1.quad.com (Oleg Kiselev)
Newsgroups: alt.flame,soc.women,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Yet Another Forgery!
Keywords: antifemophobialisexpicalidocious
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Date: 27 Jan 88 19:41:58 GMT
References: <229*manis@instr.camosun.bcc.cdn> <6466@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <2939@killer.UUCP> <2623@dasys1.UUCP> <3089@killer.UUCP> <6706@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: oleg@quad1.quad.com (Oleg Kiselev)
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So what IS going on here?

In article <6706@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> era1987@violet.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Mark Ethan Smith) writes:
>I guess Mike Robinson wrote this particular forgery.

Yes, I can see the logic -- "I hate Mike Robinson and I know that Mike Robinson
is capable of posting fake articles, therefore he posted this particular fake." 

>emind>You don't have to be a Usenet administrator to post untraceable articles
>emind>Anybody can do it just as well as the site administrator.  If only white
>emind>males
>emind>know how, it is only because only white males have bothered to read the
>emind>news documentation (posted and publicly available).
>emind>If women and minorities would bother to read the documentation, they
>emind>could post libelous or defamatory anonymous postings on the net and not 
>emind>be held responsible either.

So?  Is the concept of "SARCASM" alien to MES? 

And yes, as many of us know, it is laughably trivial to post an "untraceable"
forgery. Technically, every article I posted beween 1986 and early 1987 was
a "forgery" because they alleged to be posted from a machine that never had a 
USENET connection.  So if MES needs another reason to be paranoid, she can now
put me on the list of nasty nasty white males who disagree with her and can 
post forgeries.  I hope she loses some sleep over it, too.
-- 
Oleg Kiselev  --  oleg@quad1.quad.com -- {...!psivax|seismo!gould}!quad1!oleg
HASA, "A" Division

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