From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 20:44:08 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Fascinating troll with forged newgroups
Message-ID: <199604050940.LAA01439@utopia.hacktic.nl>
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Bill Stewart wrote:

>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.

The latter is most likely the truth given that Bnai Brith and the ADL
and the Simon Wiesenthal centre all have plenty to gain financially
by claiming that the internet is full of neo-nazis.