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to: DENNIS LAFONTAINE
from: KATHY JOHNSON
date: 1995-08-10 07:33:00
subject: False Name

KJ> Michael, this couldn't have happened, as the person who posted those
KJ> messages used a bbs that the REAL person had never logged onto.
>I gave ellen a little forged email a week ago just to show how easy
>internet can be forged. The only trace is my IP number, in which I
>could post via an anonymous server and bypass that as well.
Yeah, I saw it.  But Internet is different than Fidonet in operation.
If a user on a bbs has a password, then anybody trying to log onto that
same bbe under that same name HAS to have that person's password. Two
users can't have the same name and different passwords (unless the sysop
allows it, which is definitely not a good thing to do).
Anyway, I'm still following up on this problem, and haven't gotten ANY
answers from that side of the country yet. But I have hopes that they'll
wake up over there soon...
--Kathy
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