Cell Relay Archive

[Jon Rouse <rousej@it.postoffice.co.uk>]

ronald h. davis wrote:
> 
> someone went through this newsgroup last night sending lots of forged
> posts.  the forgeries, at least to me, appeared to be pretty good as
> the person forged the header more than usual to make it difficult to
> tell the source of the forgeries.

There are still ways, especially if people compare notes from different
sites around the world.

 
> these kinds of idiots really get you angry because they cause people
> to have to go to moderated newsgroups - which in my opinion limits
> the freeform nature of the unmoderated ones...

If you are going to forge headers in this way, you are not going to
worry about forging a moderater approval header.

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