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From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Binary: McAfee's SCANV52 (latest version, includes AIDS)
Message-ID: <1990Jan7.200752.2285@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 7 Jan 90 20:07:52 GMT
References: <1027@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> <etc.@etc.UUCP> <931@eecea.eece.ksu.edu>
Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA
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In article <931@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> gordon@eecea.UUCP (Dwight W. Gordon) writes:
>  Use binaries posted to unmoderated groups at your own risk!  (Isn't that
>always the case anyway?)

If you're that worried, use stuff from moderated groups with equal caution.
The moderation scheme is designed to prevent accidental and casual postings
to moderated groups, not to prevent deliberate fraud.  Forging a moderated
message is not much harder than forging any other kind.  Consider the famous
April Fools postings such as the message from kremvax or the recision of the
switch from mod.*.
-- 
John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650
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