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Re: Callable Notes question.

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From: Dick Munroe
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 03:13
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In article <1992Oct9.213352.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>, zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au (Paul Repacholi) writes:
> In article <1992Oct8.100246.4634@dmc.com>, munroe@dmc.com (Dick Munroe) writes:
> ...
>> If it DOESN'T exist in callable notes itself, how would you go about forging
>> such an identity?
>> 
> Well, its just the user name from the process header, plus SYS$NODE...
> 
> ~Paul
> 

Not exactly.  Most likely it's the SCCS node name and retrieved from GETSYI. 
If you change SYS$NODE and attempt a post to a topic, you STILL get the right
node name.
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From: munroe@dmc.com (Dick Munroe)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Callable Notes question.
Message-ID: <1992Oct12.231359.4635@dmc.com>
Date: 12 Oct 92 23:13:59 EDT
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