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> 1) He received a copy of someone else's posting, but by email.
> 2) He sent a personal reply in response.
> 3) His response ended up posted in the newsgroup.
> 
> Could a 3rd party send someone a message with an edited header that 
> would route a reply to some other location? In short, what gives?!?

This isn't at all difficult.  What I'd do is put an article into a
scratch file, edit it a bit to make it say whatever I liked, and then
type:
	uux foo!rmail joe <junk

The edited article would be mailed to foo!joe, with a initial "From "
line, but otherwise unaltered.  If I know something about his mailer,
I can set it up so that all sorts of funny things will happen when he
tries to reply to it.  This is dependent, of course, on joe not looking
too closely at the headers, and trusting his mailer to handle it for
him.  

You're welcome.

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