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From: gadfly@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Gadfly)
Newsgroups: alt.flame,soc.women,soc.singles
Subject: Re: the solution to the forgery problem
Summary: Won't work.
Keywords: Gene Ward and other such victims
Message-ID: <7086@ihlpa.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 88 23:17:21 GMT
References: <14316@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <14316@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>, pooh@oddjob.UChicago.EDU
(for you to know and me to find out) writes:
> Anyone who feels they are currently victims of a campaign
> to forge their articles can easily solve the problem.
> 
> Announce publicly that you are now withdrawing from posting
> to the net for a specified period (three months or so), and
> that in this period of time, any and ALL postings from "you"
> should be ignored as a forgery...

What will that prove?  The creative forger (I, for instance, am
actually Pooh, responding to my own posting but using gadfly's
account as he stands over my shoulder, his firm hands gently...
hmmm, ok, so that's not very creative, but you get the picture)
would simply announce a change of heart, and possibly a change of
attitude (thereby confusing those who also notice a change of style).
I mean, look how many people do announce their net.sabbaticals,
only to reappear 2 days later because they "just had to respond".

Don't go to sleep!  And for Heaven's sake, don't stop posting! 
If you do, the pod-people will take over.  Why would Pooh even
mention such an unthinkable strategy, unless...

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