1996-04-05 - Re: Fascinating troll with forged newgroups

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From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
To: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Message Hash: edea52d1d6ed78168c752a6c2fcc05d9232cd89de75fd7b2e738698b1f7b10c3
Message ID: <199604050320.TAA20210@dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-04-05 09:27:50 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 17:27:50 +0800

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From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 17:27:50 +0800
To: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Fascinating troll with forged newgroups
Message-ID: <199604050320.TAA20210@dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com>
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At 03:00 AM 4/4/96 -0800, you wrote:
>Looks like the Nazis forged newgroup messages for rec.fag-bashing,
>rec.org.kkk, and 100 RFD'd groups in order to get their little messages
>across.
>
>How entertaining. What a marvelous new form of net.vandalism they've
>discovered. Or is this not new?

Oh, no, this sort of thing is not new.  It happened more before the 
Great Renaming, but it's not new.  The other possibility is it's troll
trying to make it _look_ like the Nazis did it.






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