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From: pmontgom@oak.math.ucla.edu (Peter Montgomery)
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Subject: Re: Forged articles
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Date: 20 Feb 90 19:27:55 GMT
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In article <4960@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> prabhu@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Dinesh K. Prabhu) writes:

>  I just got mail from T. W. Wells telling me that the call for votes on
>  news.groups.ficc was a forgery. I went back into the news/groups directory
>  and did a thorough search for the offending article and I couldn't find
>  it. This is really peculiar and disturbing. I can access almost all the
>  articles between Feb.14 and Feb.19 save one.

	It seems the perpetrator cancelled the article.  
On Sunday I sent T. W. Wells the body of the article as it reached UCLA, 
but it is no longer available here, even though its neighbors are.

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        Peter Montgomery
        pmontgom@MATH.UCLA.EDU 
	Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024