Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!mcdchg!ddsw1!karl From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Call To Save Microport Summary: Not necessarially a forgery, I verified by phone that the person who's phone number appears therein DID email the article to John Sully! Message-ID: <3181@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Date: 26 Mar 89 20:54:42 GMT References: <13426@steinmetz.ge.com> <282@nessus.UUCP> Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Mundelein, IL Lines: 29 In article <282@nessus.UUCP> pst@nessus.UUCP (Paul Traina) writes: >> In article <316@CIPHER_1.UUCP> jmsully@CIPHER_1.UUCP (John M. Sully) writes: > ...drivel & flames > >Look, this was obviously a forgery, so don't blame Sully. Not necessarially. I called the number given in the posting. The person named did admit to sending that very article to John Sully, but claimed that he had asked John to "clean it up and post it". Obviously it wasn't cleaned up. He also said that his phone had been ringing off the hook.......... The site it was posted from is bogus, but it DID go directly to uunet. Therefore, it is probably reasonable to assume that it came from a subscriber's system. I wouldn't be surprised if it was indeed posted by John or someone else with access to his account. All it takes to change the node name on a posting is a little creative editing on the file itself before it is picked up for outbound spooling, or setting the nodename to something different before you post..... I wouldn't be surprised if there are serious repercussions from that little bitty of misinformation... -- Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, !ddsw1!karl) Public Access Data Line: [+1 312 566-8911], Voice: [+1 312 566-8910] Macro Computer Solutions, Inc.