maffray@porthos.rutgers.edu (Frederic Maffray) (08/09/89)
Today my system had the following postings appearing on talk.politics.mideast. None of them contained any text. For each one of them, the name in the "From:" line is that of a regular contributor to the above-mentioned newsgroup. These postings look like some kind of forgery. What can be done? -------------------------------------------------------------------- # From: Eugene.Schwartzman@mamab.FIDONET.ORG (Eugene Schwartzman) # Subject: Re: Brave Warriors # Message-ID: <220.24DDB634@mamab.FIDONET.ORG> # From: Ran.Ever-Hadani@mamab.FIDONET.ORG (Ran Ever-Hadani) # Subject: Nazism # Message-ID: <213.24DDB61B@mamab.FIDONET.ORG> # From: Steve.Goldfield@mamab.FIDONET.ORG (Steve Goldfield) # Subject: Re: Hizbullah and hostages (really: Israel and dead babies) # Message-ID: <214.24DDB61F@mamab.FIDONET.ORG> # From: Ari.Halberstadt@mamab.FIDONET.ORG (Ari Halberstadt) # Subject: Re: Many Jews are shamed by killing in Israel # Message-ID: <215.24DDB624@mamab.FIDONET.ORG> # From: Ran.Ever-Hadani@mamab.FIDONET.ORG (Ran Ever-Hadani) # Subject: Re: On Extending Anti-Semitism # Message-ID: <216.24DDB62A@mamab.FIDONET.ORG> # From: Farzin.Mokhtarian@mamab.FIDONET.ORG (Farzin Mokhtarian) # Subject: Re: The Legend of Khomeini # Message-ID: <217.24DDB62C@mamab.FIDONET.ORG> # From: Karen.Kolling@mamab.FIDONET.ORG (Karen Kolling) # Subject: Re: Sharon the Butcher as Defense Minister (or maybe Prime Minister?) # Message-ID: <218.24DDB62F@mamab.FIDONET.ORG> # From: Ari.Halberstadt@mamab.FIDONET.ORG (Ari Halberstadt) # Subject: ARGHHH...excuse strange postings... # Message-ID: <219.24DDB632@mamab.FIDONET.ORG> --------------------------------------------------------------------
amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir) (08/09/89)
This looks like a failed attempt by someone to gateway t.p.m into FIDO net; for some reason the forwarded articles (or rather, just their headers) bounced back. The funny aspect of this (quite common) mistake, is that at least two posters whose articles bounced were convinced someone is trying to impersonate them. Come on, guys - posting on talk.politics.mideast does not mean you *have* to be paranoid! -- Amos Shapir amos@taux01.nsc.com or amos@nsc.nsc.com National Semiconductor (Israel) P.O.B. 3007, Herzlia 46104, Israel Tel. +972 52 522261 TWX: 33691, fax: +972-52-558322 34 48 E / 32 10 N (My other cpu is a NS32532)