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- Path: sparky!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx!tinsel
- From: tinsel@nyx.cs.du.edu (Thomas Insel)
- Subject: Re: Forgery
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.055118.2904@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
- Reply-To: tinsel@uiuc.edu
- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <1992Jul21.033018.15388@ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 05:51:18 GMT
- Approved: by 3 out of 4 ex-actors in California politics
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- kibirev@csa.bu.edu (oleg kibirev) writes:
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- >For those who can't yet figure out how to forge posts: the simpliest way is sending
- >fake mail to one of Mail->News gateways. This way you don't get Sender:, Originator:
- >NNTP-Posting-Host etc. grep man sendmail for "trusted users" and "alternate configuration
- >file" if you don't have SMTP. Just hope we'll not see so much garbage if there will be no chalenge.
-
- IMHO, the easiest way to forge mail and news is with a Macintosh (on the
- internet, of course). The answers, of course, are available via FTP from
- major archives everywhere.
- --
- Thomas Insel (tinsel@nyx.cs.du.edu, tinsel@uiuc.edu)
-