Re: Forgery

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From: Jonathan I. Kamens
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:53

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Sigh.

I already explained what happened to Coyt and the news admins at OSU.

1) Coyt posted a valid cancel message, which got mailed to me because
he was cancelling a message in news.answers.

2) I approved the message and posted it.

3) Some other funny guy took that message, modified the Control
header, and posted it again.  It got mailed to me again.

4) I didn't notice the modified Control header, thought it was just
another valid cancel message from Coyt, approved it and posted it.

So trying to track down the originating site of the forged control message
isn't going to help.  I admit right now that it originated from MIT, since I
posted it :-).

Unfortunately, I did not save the E-mail messages containing the bogus control
messages, so I can't check the Received headers to find out where they came
from.  There probably isn't much point to it anyway.

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

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