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- From: aladdin@majik.com
- Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
- Subject: Re: Anonymous Posts?
- Summary:
- References: <BzBH9I.3yx@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <7w4uVB2w164w@tweekco.uucp> <bern.724610053@kleopatra>
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 01:23:00 GMT
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- In article <bern.724610053@kleopatra> bern@Uni-Trier.DE (Jochen Bern) writes:
- >
- >Let's face the Facts: It IS possible, so everyone who wants to post
- >anonymously can do it (if he knows how). Look at the Headers of this
- >Article - I forged Path and From, since they don't come up correctly
- >from the Newsreader I use. However, you will ALWAYS be able to find
- >the Sysadmin of somebody who posted since all News Sites add to the
-
- Bzzt. You need not post the article from a site you have an account on.
- Therefore, finding the sysadmin may be quite a bit more difficult.
- ( Pouring over nntplogs, which hopefully haven't spooled out the info
- you want ) And if the "culprit" posted via nntp from a plain telnet
- server, you will never know.
-
- >Path Field; Compare, say, four Copies of the Article from different
- >Sites and figure out what the first constant Part is; This should give
- >you the Site where the Article was posted.
- >
-
- This is supposing that it was posted from only one site. If the article
- is posted to several sites at once, your theory is worth -0-.
- Unless more sites used a system like the one in place at
- sol.ctr.columbia.edu, that is.
-
- >Regards,
- > J. Bern
-
- Oh please trace me, great gods of the internet.
-
- --
- Me.
-