0003137RISK 880404 Charles Daffinger RISKS of using the "AT&T Public Phone Plus": April Forgeries (Re: RISKS-6.52) Date: Mon, 4 Apr 88 23:17:09 EST From: Charles Daffinger Subject: April Forgeries (Re: RISKS-6.52) [Most of you have chortled appropriately at the Spafford Spoof. Charles' message is apparently intended for those of you who need more explicit references to the self-referential evidence left by the forged forgery warning. By the way, Charles neglected to remark that RISKS-6.52 was not put out on 1 April either. PGN] Here's the article warning about forgeries: Note the strange date, note that spaf's message is dated *after* the message it was enclosed in, and a couple of self-references in the posting! Enjoy! In article <12386860573.13.NEUMANN@KL.SRI.COM> you write: >RISKS-LIST: RISKS-FORUM Digest Friday 1 April 1988 Volume 6 : Issue 52 > >Contents: > April Fool's warning from Usenet (Gene Spafford via Cliff Stoll) >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Thu, 31 Mar 88 12:17:48 PST ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >From: cliff@Csa5.LBL.Gov (Cliff Stoll) >Subject: April Fool's warning from Usenet > >Here's the warning from USENET's news.announce.important: > >From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) ================================== >Subject: Warning: April Fools Time again (forged messages on the loose!) >Date: 1 Apr 88 00:00:00 GMT ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. > >Warning: April 1 is rapidly approaching, and with it comes a USENET >tradition. On April Fools day comes a series of forged, tongue-in-cheek >messages, either from non-existent sites or using the name of a Well Known ============================== >USENET person. In general, these messages are harmless and meant as a joke, ======= [...] > > o Posted dates. Almost invariably, the date of the posting is forged > to be April 1. ================================= =============