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In <1992Aug27.145427.13856@cs.wisc.edu> roth@ordin.cs.wisc.edu (Bill Roth) writes:

>There is a BBS in HQ at 501-399-3877.  9600 baud. 8-N-1.
>
[...]
>There is also a BBS at 501-399-3877.  This *not* an official Clinton/Gore
>BBS.

	Huh?
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>			**** warning ****
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>Bogus messages are being posted, at least to the Compuserve account, as
>coming from:        bush@whitehouse.wash.gov.
>
>They are actually coming from: its.rpi.edu.  What is the policy on using
>the internet for partisan political pranks and dis-information?

	Pretty similar to using it for a partisan political campaign, I'd bet.
	USENET is yet another, probably more complicated, story.

	You'd have a hard time convincing even the most naive user that
	bush@whitehouse.wash.gov was George Bush.   Would you believe that
	a paper letter with the return address of 1900 Penn. Ave. (or
	whatever the White House address is) was from George Bush, even if
	it had his name in the return address place?

	And why believe that it's a "partisan political prank?"  It's
	probably a garden variety "bored student prank" which are so common
	on USENET.  But I haven't seen the messages, so I'm willing to be
	proven wrong.

>
>Jock Gill
>Clinton/Gore Email Team
>
>Bill Roth, University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Dept.

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