[talk.bizarre] Forged moderation control messages for talk.bizarre

scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller) (04/02/91)

The following were received here at Zorch today.  I have left the headers
intact.  Obviously this is someone's idea of an April Fool's joke.  I would
appreciate any evidence that anyone can supply me of who forged these.  Note
that the originating host's name is mispelled in the Path: header.

|Path: zorch!vsi1!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!usccc!aludrah.usc.edu!carasso
|From: carasso@aludra.usc.edu (Roger RDC Carasso)
|Newsgroups: talk.bizarre.ctl
|Subject: newgroup comp.society.folklore moderated
|Message-ID: <I626I@chaph.usc.edu>
|Date: 1 Apr 91 0:00:00 GMT
|Control: newgroup talk.bizarre moderated
|Followup-To: talk.bizarre
|Organization: GOOD: flowers, peace, sunshine; BAD: NUCLEAR WAR, EVIL
|Distribution: talk
|Lines: 8
|Approved: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver)
|Nntp-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu
|Originator: carasso@aludra.usc.edu
|
|talk.bizarre has gotten totally out of control.  A responsible individual
|is needed to control cross-posting and followups.  From now on, talk.bizarre
|will be moderated.  We are fortunate indeed to have 
|    xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) 
|volunteer for this important position.  Please update your "mailpaths" file.
|
|--
|RDC
|
|Path: zorch!vsi1!ames!think.com!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!news.cs.indiana.edu!usccc!aludrah.usc.edu!carasso
|From: carasso@aludra.usc.edu (Roger RDC Carasso)
|Newsgroups: talk.bizarre.ctl
|Subject: newgroup talk.bizarre moderated
|Message-ID: <I628I@chaph.usc.edu>
|Date: 1 Apr 91 00:00:00 GMT
|Control: newgroup talk.bizarre moderated
|Followup-To: talk.bizarre
|Distribution: talk
|Organization: GOOD: flowers, peace, sunshine; BAD: NUCLEAR WAR, EVIL
|Lines: 8
|Approved: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver)
|Supersedes: <I626I@chaph.usc.edu>
|Nntp-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu
|Originator: carasso@aludra.usc.edu
|
|talk.bizarre has gotten totally out of control.  A responsible individual
|is needed to control cross-posting and followups.  From now on, talk.bizarre
|will be moderated.  We are fortunate indeed to have 
|    xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) 
|volunteer for this important position.  Please update your "mailpaths" file.
|
|--
|RDC

As of this writing two news sites have honored the control message,
eastapps.East.Sun.COM and mech.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp.  Please *do not* add
xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG for talk.bizarre to your mailpaths file.  Kent
is not set up to moderate a group, and any postings forwarded to him for
posting will be lost.

Material for news.software.b:  I highly recommend getting one of the several
third-party newgroup/rmgroup scripts (C News sites) or setting the appropriate
#defines in B News.  I look forward to the day when Henry and Geoff provide a
more controlled newgroup/rmgroup suite for C News.

Talk.bizarre:  Contact your site news administrator and make sure that he/she
understands that talk.bizarre is not moderated, and least of all by Kent.

I can be reached at 408 285 5762 between 9AM and 5PM (at least) Pacific Time.


-- 
Scott Hazen Mueller | scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG or (ames|pyramid|vsi1)!zorch!scott
SF-Bay.ORG is a Bay Area Usenet Domain | Mail fusion-request@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG
Park; write for information on joining | for emailed sci.physics.fusion digests
SF-Bay Public-Access Unix 408-996-7358/61/78/86 login newuser password public