[HN Gopher] Risks of automatic newspaper publishing (1995)
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       Risks of automatic newspaper publishing (1995)
        
       Author : luu
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2021-06-02 01:06 UTC (21 hours ago)
        
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       | pugworthy wrote:
       | This kind of reminds me of Yahoo! News a long time ago, which (if
       | I remember right) would append "Yahoo!" to the start of all news
       | headlines. So one might get, "Yahoo! Tornado kills 5 in Kansas"
        
       | elliekelly wrote:
       | Who is the "audience" of this email(?) and what is the context?
       | And is this a legitimate email? The "from" email address at the
       | top does not match the signature email address at the bottom.
        
         | jaywalk wrote:
         | It's a Usenet post from the comp.risks newsgroup.
        
           | lisper wrote:
           | That doesn't explain the from address. The .news TLD did not
           | exist in 1995.
        
             | jaywalk wrote:
             | It's not an email address. Many people didn't use a real
             | address in the header because of spam, and Usenet doesn't
             | really care if it a valid email address or not at a
             | protocol level.
        
             | tpmx wrote:
             | Looks like it was an ISP usenet service service at the
             | time:
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             | https://groups.google.com/g/van.general/c/jV637wlw7_E/m/UjN
             | e...
             | 
             | The post is present in this 1995 digest:
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             | http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/17/31#subj6.2
        
             | acdha wrote:
             | Usenet didn't do any validation on headers so it could have
             | been either an attempt at spam control (it wasn't uncommon
             | to download headers but not bodies to reduce network
             | traffic) or possibly that they had an internal news
             | hostname which leaked due to a configuration error?
        
       | [deleted]
        
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