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- From: twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Forgery
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.043712.21836@amhux2.amherst.edu>
- Sender: usenet@amhux2.amherst.edu (USENET News System)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: amhux1.amherst.edu
- Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
- References: <1992Jul21.033018.15388@ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 04:37:12 GMT
- Approved: gorby@kremintellivision.su
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Jul21.033018.15388@ctr.columbia.edu> kibirev@csa.bu.edu (oleg kibirev) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul20.185304.837@amhux2.amherst.edu> twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
- >>In article <foo.bar.42@tinwhistle> foo@bar (Foobar) writes:
- >>
- >>> Nntp-Posting-Host: kremvic20
- >>
- >>Forged posts are generally really boring, but this was a really nice
- >>touch.
- >
- >What??? You didn't know that kremvax.msk.su is a real UUCP site? It's located in
- >Kurchatov Intitute in Moscow. Try "/usr/local/etc/dig kremvax.msk.su any" if you
- >don't believe it (or get pit-manager.mit.edu:/pub/jargon/*).
-
- /usr/local/etc/dig: no such file or directory
- /usr/etc/dig: no such file or directory
- /etc/dig: no such file or directory
-
- Thanks for sharing, though.
-
- Yes, I knew that kremvax is a real site, and something of the history
- behind it. I was unaware that kremvic20 had been created, though. I
- bet porting sendmail was a *bitch.*
-
- >For those who can't yet figure out how to forge posts:
-
- Gosh, I thought this was alt.hackers, where people (once) taught
- themselves how to do things.
-
- ObHack: disassembling IBM PC graphics software to figure out which
- bits to twiddle for graphics mode when you don't have a manual handy.
-
- --
- ____ Tim Pierce / "You mean there are TWO of you, Pierce?
- \ / twpierce@amherst.edu / God help us all."
- \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) / -- Major Charles Emerson Winchester III
-