From: nobody@rosebud.ee.uh.edu
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 93 12:34:53 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: ANON: nntp
Message-ID: <9307081934.AA20234@toad.com>
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Oops...looks like my message got trimmed somewhere by a sig catcher.
Here is the usenet forging part:

So, we can all forge mail with smtp, use the cypherpunk remailers, use
"anonymous" servers like penet and charcoal, email-to-usenet gateways,
etc.  I've never seen instructions on how to forge a usenet post, so
here goes:

1) Telnet to an NNTP server (see Yanoff's internet services list)
2) Type 'post'.  After a bit, you'll get an OK message.
3) Type in what you want to appear.  Have in mind before you start
   what fields you want in the header, or check other posts to see what
   they have.
4) End with a period on a line all by itself.  After a bit, you'll get
   a "Post OK" message.
5) Type 'quit'

For example, I was experimenting and telnetted to news.fu-berlin.de 119:

======================================================================
menudo> telnet news.fu-berlin.de 119
Trying 130.133.4.250...
Connected to gibb.math.fu-berlin.de.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 gibb NNTP server version 1.5.11 (10 February 1991) ready at Thu Jul  8 16:19:05 1993 (posting ok).
post
340 Ok
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.d
Path: one!two!three
From: mr.smiley@other.plane
Subject: A test II
Content-Type: text
Sender: the MailMan
Nntp-Posting-Host: castle
Organization: other plane hackers
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 07:45:00 GMT
Lines: 1

This is another test.