Re: a question about reducible polynomials

In article <9fju22tmevpgi6grmeehvg17ibv8aj8q12@xxxxxxx>,
quasi <quasi@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 02 Apr 2006 04:01:37 GMT,
Peter-Lawrence.Montgomery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter L.
Montgomery) wrote:

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.

It's happened to me three times as well; twice last November, once
recently.

I don't know if it is ->someone<-, or if somehow there is a hiccup in
some server that is causeing this.

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.

I contacted them when the two spoofs of posts of mine (also verbatim,
also with the address modified exactly as this one and as the ones you
report). I never got any reponse.

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Arturo Magidin
magidin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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