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Old April 7th 08, 11:52 AM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt,rec.aviation.piloting
Larry Dighera
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Default Note to everyone: Beware forged posts

On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:47:26 -0500, Jim Logajan
wrote:

I see someone has targeted several people who post to r.a.p and r.a.h and
begun forging their names in the "From" headers and posted troll-like posts
in an attempt to "Joe Job" the targets.


Forged messages are a violation of many anonymous news gateways.

http://www.albasani.net/info/terms_of_use.html.en
Addresses specified in From:, Reply-To: and Sender: must be valid
and at the user's disposal. The top level domain (TLD) invalid may
be used for the From: address, e.g. lid. See
also RFC2606:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2606.html