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This newgroup message recently arrived at our site:

>Control: newgroup soc.culture.ecsd
>Newsgroups: soc.culture.ecsd.ctl,control
>Path: enterpoop.mit.edu!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!samsara!gital.org!static!xavier!mainz!nord.tostit.ca!radler
>From: radler@nord.tostit.ca (Robin Adler-Pope)
>Subject: newgroup soc.culture.ecsd
>Message-ID: <1993Jan19.073922@tostit.ca>
>Sender: mailer@tostit.ca
>Organization: Tostit Northern Associates (Calgary, AB)
>Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 12:39:22 GMT
>Approved: mailer@tostit.ca
>Lines: 1

Neither "tostit.ca" nor "nord.tostit.ca" are valid hosts.  I tried forwarding
a message through "mainz" to nord.tostit.ca!radler, but that bounced too.  Mail
to mainz!news and mainz!usenet bounced, although mainz!postmaster worked
(although the postmaster there apparently did not understand what I was asking
when I forwarded the bounce there).

I can find no indication anywhere that this newgroup is valid.  Certainly, I
see no reason for newgroup messages in the main hierarchies to be coming from
anyone other than Dave Lawrence.  So, what's going on here?  Does anyone know
anything about this site?  Does anyone know any background behind the newgroup?

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Jonathan Kamens                                         jik@MIT.Edu
Aktis, Inc.                                    Moderator, *.answers