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Re: "Anon" fake...
"Perry E. Metzger" says:
>
> Lyman Hazelton says:
> > Perry (and other c'punks),
> >
> > I don't think the mechanism employed by the hacker is using "who" at
> > all.
>
> The mechanism employed was obvious and simple -- someone subscribed an
> anXXX address to the list. Anyone looking at the subscription list can
> tell that, on their own. This technique has been used before.
BTW, this is not to say that other techniques aren't being employed by
others right now using alt.test -- I'm just refering to what happened
last week on this mailing list...
Perry