Aharpo.407 net.general utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!harpo!jerry Wed Aug 12 10:42:36 1981 forgery I suppose Steve should know better than I do, but why couldn't a forger just uux (or execute directly) rnews on a machine with the input indicating the item came from datamat!rumor. In fact couldn't you drop it in almost anywhere in the net? Potentially the later can be detected because you will end up with peculiar headers (e.g. the item appears to have passed through a machine twice.) A little more cleverness, and a better understanding of netnews might circumvent even that problem, and in any event the only thing you could learn would be the machine rnews was executed on. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.