From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig) Subject: Re: Your english sucks, mine is better. Date: 1997/11/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 291856861 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <64vl4h$3qh@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> <34785536.4FCF@flash.net> Organization: AT&T Research, Florham Park, NJ Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-11-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <34785536.4FCF@flash.net>, Spaceman Spiff! wrote: > I find that an extremely libel action. The internet is > a very easy place to pretent your someone else, just by > altering your identity in your mailer or newsreader. > I could very easily pretend I'm not "Scotty"... Well, that may be. But 1. If someone's postings are mostly sensible, with a small fraction of unaccountable nonsense, it is easy to figure out that something odd is going on, and try to learn what it might be. 2. If you're going to forge postings from me, you'll have to do a better job than you did. It will take a couple of days for me to know for sure, but I'm willing to bet that DejaNews will not misattribute this particular forgery. -- --Andrew Koenig ark@research.att.com http://www.research.att.com/info/ark