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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Forgeries: a suggestion for bringing them under control
Message-ID: <2410@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 4 Feb 88 07:16:34 GMT
References: <1861@epimass.EPI.COM> <317@dsinc.UUCP> <1988Feb1.130753.20144@utzoo.uucp> <21986@tis.llnl.gov> <1141@hao.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Keywords: So ?

In article <1141@hao.ucar.edu> woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes:
>In article <21986@tis.llnl.gov> mcb@tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch) writes:
>>With the exception of the annual April Fool's articles, forgery seems
>>to be limited to a few groups like alt.flame and some of the talk or
>>soc groups.  Is there any reason to believe that more widespread
>>forgery will occur? 
>
>message claiming to be from Gene Spafford. This is a lot more serious
>than forging your "opponent's" name to an article during a flame war
>in alt.flame . So far, we've only had one incident like this, but it's
>only a matter of time before there are more. If we don't do SOMETHING
>to prevent it, the net will degenerate into pure anarchy

Did I miss something here ?  Is this a crisis ?  A threat to national
security ?  The end of the world as we know it ?

Whats the worst that could happen ?

What is it with these damn question marks ?



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