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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] 30th Anniversary of most epic netnews post
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 08:28:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210401152810.GI4209@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <emfb39176a-315e-417e-8d61-72959e5d67ea@alien>

On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 03:20:32PM +0000, Ron Natalie wrote:
> Thanks,  I was looking for the older ones and couldn't find them.
> I knew the "tired of seeing this post" thing meant I was looking at a
> reprise.
> 
> By the way, for those who don't know.   Spaf didn't write any of it.    The
> message itself was the spoof warned about (and all the "ways to tell" appear
> in the message/headers).

It's always amazed me that courts will take emails as "evidence" because it is
absolutely trivial to fake them.  Unless they've added some crypto host
identification (have they?)

--lm

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-01 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-01 12:21 Ron Natalie
2021-04-01 14:24 ` Adam Sjøgren via TUHS
2021-04-01 15:20   ` Ron Natalie
2021-04-01 15:28     ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2021-04-01 16:14       ` John Floren
2021-04-01 16:22         ` Richard Salz
2021-04-01 21:27       ` John Cowan
2021-04-01 15:30     ` John Foust
2021-04-01 21:11 ` Dave Horsfall

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