Re: a question about reducible polynomials

On 02 Apr 2006 04:01:37 GMT,
Peter-Lawrence.Montgomery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter L.
Montgomery) wrote:

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Hmmm ...

When I saw the duplicate post, it called to mind the bogus duplicate
post made in my name this morning.

If you look at the headers of the post to which I'm replying, you'll
see they _don't_ match that of the real Peter L. Montgomery.

However, except for the spoofed username and email, the headers of the
above post _do_ match the post from this morning in which my username
and email were spoofed.

In other words, it's the same user, playing games by posting replies
using names and emails of other users.

So far, the two such bogus posts which I've noted were verbatim copies
used of a prior real reply from the real user, so no apparent harm was
done.

But since the perpetrator has done it twice now (twice that I'm aware
of anyway), impersonating 2 different real users, it makes it
absolutely clear that it's no accident. I guess we could complain to
the user's news provider (readfreenews.net) and get the user's usenet
account canceled, but I don't really have the time right now to figure
out who to contact and what proof to send them.

In any case, I want to alert people that we apparently have a user
from readfreenews.net who is impersonating other users.

So if in doubt, check header fields.

quasi
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