From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:11:11 -0800 (PST)
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: ITAR / S 1726 / Civil Disobedience
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961030210453.003cfe40@popd.ix.netcom.com>
Message-ID: <199610310108.BAA00269@server.test.net>
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Bill Stewarts <stewarts@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> At 08:03 AM 10/30/96 EST, you wrote:
> >Would it be appropriate for other users to forward this 
> >message to the prez with their signatures?
> 
> The message was sent from "cypherpunks@toad.com" and signed
> "Cypherpunks", which was highly inappropriate.
> (Wasn't a bad message, but cypherpunks is a bunch of
> individuals, it's not an anonymous collective...)

The text of the message is from Vince Cate's arms-trafficker page.

	http://online.offshore.com.ai/arms-trafficker/

The page offers to send the message cc the president.  I presume
someone decided to forge a from line "cypherpunks@toad.com", and cc'd
to Herr Klinton.  (Unless the page would acheive this by entering this
as a from address of cypherpunks@toad.com in the box?)

Adam
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