Re: Forged posting of the Linux FAQ to comp.os.linux.announce

Ian Jackson (iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk)
Tue, 30 Aug 94 02:14 BST

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Larry W. Virden, x2487 writes ("Re: Forged posting of the Linux FAQ to comp.os.linux.announce"):
> When folk see a /bin/sh script in a posting, they assume (and may even have
> macros set up to automatically treat) the article as an encoded or shar'd
> posting.
>
> If your postings have the posting script embedded, then don't be surprised
> to see an ever increasing number of these occurances.

You've misunderstood me.

I posted the FAQ without the #!/bin/sh wrapper.

The mistake I made was distributing the script I used to do the
posting (which started
#!/bin/sh
/usr/lib/news/inews -h <<'END-OF-FAQ-PORTION'
From: ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Jackson)
of course) as `linux-faq.ascii' on the various Linux FTP sites.

The guy who ran the script wasn't some clueless idiot. He should have
known better ...

Anyway, I've now uploaded a version where linux-faq.ascii is subtly
different from linux-faq.post (which I don't distribute).

Ian.

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