From: davidv@yang.earlham.edu (Live from the Twilight Zone)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: (We are not) SCUM!!!  ALL OF YOU!!!
Summary: Another damn stupid forgery
Date: 11 Apr 92 11:12:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: yang.1992Apr11.061212.16867
Followup-To: talk.bizarre, alt.stupidity
Organization: ECMLVDC

In article <9204071814.AA24726@noc2.dccs.upenn.edu>, mjd@SAUL.CIS.UPENN.EDU 
writes:

...
Actually, for the time being, let's forget the contents of the posting, 
since they're not Mark-Jason Dominus'.  Yeah, another fake.  The worst to 
date.  A bad fake.  How bad?  _I_ caught it, for Chrissakes.

It doesn't sound like Mark-Jason Dominus.  The closest it gets is that it 
could be a committee of fifteen-year old boys recruited (presumably by 
Carasso) from k12.chat.metalheads trying to imitate the aforementioned 
Mark-Jason Dominus based only on a posting made while he was freebasing 
Alpo.  Not that I am saying he does.

Okay, the followup was set to misc.test and alt.stupidity.  Perhaps it was a 
late, not-so-funny, definitely-not-so-original, April Fool's joke.  Maybe.
  
I left alt.stupidity, because it _is_ a stupid forgery.  Artimus, over on 
alt.sex, forges better-done fake posts, so how hard can it be?

I would say I would be surprised if anyone falls for it, but that has the 
sound of being the kind of words I would have to eat later, so I will not 
make that prediction and will instead send out for 24 hour Chinese.


For those who care, an anatomy of a forgery:

>X-NEWS: yang.earlham.edu talk.bizarre: 12460
>Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-3 14/03/90 VAX/VMS V5.4; site yang.earlham.edu
>Path: yang.earlham.edu!bsu-ucs.uucp!bsu-cs!news.cs.indiana.edu!spool.mu.edu!
>agate!ucbvax!SAUL.CIS.UPENN.EDU!mjd
       ^^^^^^
          \_______Berkeley again.  What dolts.  It wasn't funny ever.

>Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
>Subject: SCUM!!!  ALL OF YOU!!!
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
		\___________________The _real_ mjd would have a better 
flame than that.

>Message-ID: <9204071814.AA24726@noc2.dccs.upenn.edu>
>From: mjd@SAUL.CIS.UPENN.EDU
>Date: 7 Apr 92 18:14:11 GMT
>Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU

	*sigh*

>Followup-To: talk.bizarre,misc.test,alt.stupidity
>Organization: Eaters of Wisdom
>Lines: 13

	Sheesh.  Not even an effort to blame it on ata boy.

>You are all dickheads!!! 
>All of you!!!

	The individual clearly has great experience with being a dickhead. 

>First off, I'm sick of all you assholes impersonating me!!  Everyone
>who posts something under my name can go gomerize their grandmother's hamster!!

	Perhaps there is some small irony in a forged post complaining about 
forged posts.  Nah.
	"Gomerize their grandmother's hamster???"  Not Even Close.

>FUCK YOU ALL!!!  Then there's so much other stupidity in this group
>that it turns my stomach!

	This is talk.bizarre (unless you read this on alt.stupidity, in 
which case that should read "This was talk.bizarre").  There is a lot of 
stomach-turning stupidity in this newsgroup.
	Largely in the form of ridiculing survivors of sexual assault and abuse.
	But also in the form of forged postings so lame that any surgeon 
would recommend amputation and a prosthetic.

>			    It turns ELVIS' stomach!!!  

	Mark-Jason Dominus does not "do" Elvis.

>							All of you are
>dicks!!  I'm sick of you!!  You can all just go to hell!!!!!

	Anyone who wouldn't have realized by know that this is a forgery, 
hand in any and all Clue Points immediately.

>Fuck off(tm).

	Just Go Away.


---
David "Hee-mo" Vacca, who will feel very stupid if this turns out to be a 
clever plot to create a posting that seems obviously faked when in fact it 
is not.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre