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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [news.admin.misc, et al.] Warning -- false complaint campaign about c.s.i posters
- Message-ID: <C0rJ9z.BCr@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,news.admin.misc,news.admin.policy
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:46:47 GMT
- Lines: 63
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- [A repost - Carl]
-
- Newsgroups: news.admin.misc,news.admin.policy
- From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons)
- Subject: Warning -- false complaint campaign about c.s.i posters
- Message-ID: <scs.726874882@hela.iti.org>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:41:22 GMT
-
-
- Advance apologies for the murkiness of some of this, but I cannot
- in good faith be too explicit about the people involved . . .
-
- Recently I received a letter wherein the sender either neglected to
- remove the original introductory paragraph or did not intend to send
- it to me quite yet. Heavily disguised and paraphrased, it reads:
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
-
- From: YYY@somesite
- Subject: letter
- To: to@somesite root@iti.org XXX@othersite
-
- Dear XXX:
-
- Here is the letter I intend to send to root@iti.org about
- FOO@iti.org. If you think it's OK, I'll send it from my
- accounts as A, B, and C.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
-
- The rest of the letter complained about a user at ITI who complained to
- the site admins at somesite and othersite about the actions of XXX and
- YYY. It urges me to take action action against FOO for daring to
- complain to XXXs and YYYs system administrators.
-
- This letter was addressed to me as well as XXX, so it seems he either
- sent it in error or neglected to re-edit it before sending. In either
- case, he clearly intends to make it appear that there are a number of
- users complaining when in fact it is only one or two people perpetrating
- a fraud.
-
- On investigation, it became clear that this fraud is targeted at
- several people at various sites, all of whom have dared complain about
- XXX and/or YYY to their admins. While it is of course the right of XXX
- and YYY to complain in response, I most strongly object to the intended
- fraud. I am in the process of contacting the sysadmins at their sites.
-
- If you are receiving mail complaining about the activities of users at
- your site who participate in soc.culture.indian, I caution you to check
- very carefully as to the identities of the senders. Should you be
- concerned that you are receiving fraudulent complaints, please contact
- me with the names and email addresses of the complaintants and I will
- advise you if they are XXX, YYY, A, B or C.
-
- Steve Simmons
- System Administrator
- Industrial Technology Institute
- scs@iti.org
- --
- "You can't get here from here."
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent any organization; this is just me.
- = kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
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