Matthew, at 20:32 on Jun 17 1996, you wrote to Laurie Batt ...

MP>>> That's right.  Forgery.  Because there is no way known 
MP>>> that I would have written that, and then proceeded to leave 
MP>>> the contact details of the designer on the file.  DO you 
MP>>> really think I'm that dumb?

LB>> He is.

MP> Would you like to prove that, arsehole?

DD>> I feed Bill his mail and the message in my message base 
DD>> also claims "my own design".

LB>> A check on the path and seen-by lines reveals that this 
LB>> message was not a forgery.  These lines were identical in 
LB>> all ways to messages originating from him, perhaps they are 
LB>> forgeries also. While is is possible for this to occur it 
LB>> would be extremely unlikely that it happened. To forge a 
LB>> message and make all the see-by and path lines identical 
LB>> would be difficult to achieve.

MP> Not really.  Just get a copy of another message from my 
MP> system to his, and pull off all the appropriate lines.  No 
MP> problems.

MP> I do not deny writing the message.  I deny having written 
MP> "It is my own design".

Then someone else did at your system!  All copies of your message quoted in
this conference from various nodes around Aust have included the words
"my own design".

Do you think everybody is tampering with you mail before they quote it?


David
ps. Just because one is paranoid doesn't mean that everyone isn't out to get 
@EOT:

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