How Did This Get Done?
Ok...ok....ignore the content of the following. I'm not interested in flames about narrow mindedness or whatever, I'm just interested in how the poster was able to pull the following off.... I picked this up from a post in alt.sex.stories (and yeah....man does not live on talk.politics.crypto alone :>) : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Path: io.org!sun.cais.com!news.sprintlink.net!tequesta.gate.net!sysop From: no_more_faggots@faggots.must.die.com <===== Is this a trick? Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories Subject: NO MORE FAGGOT STORIES! Date: 5 Sep 1994 21:13:00 GMT Lines: 1 Message-ID: <34g1ks$jn1@tequesta.gate.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: hopi.gate.net NO MORE FAGGOT STORIES DAMMIT ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- How the hell did the poster "customize" his address to ...ummm...fit the post???
The "From" line of a news post may be any arbitrary text. Although most newsreaders insert truthful information, you can post anything you like if you interface with the posting agent personally. You can telnet to any NNTP server on the Net that does not reject your connection and post anything you wish. The "Path" information should give you some idea of where the post originated. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ mpd@netcom.com $ via Finger. $
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