Aduke.929 net.general utzoo!decvax!duke!trt Tue Aug 11 00:09:00 1981 More Truth about datamat!rumor ANYONE can fake the origin of a news article. Just run "rnews" with a syntactically correct article on stdin. Thus, a user at unc could type: rnews << NET.GENERAL EOF The article will have a contributor-line of "...!unc!yorktown!smith". The news README.ms documentation mentions this possibility, and suggests public-key encryption as a cure. Tom Truscott ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.