Learn to read headers! (was Re: well, you still suck.)

[rbraun@cstone.net (Rolf Braun)]

In article <01bcc35e$f9aae540$cba320cc@timesink>, "matthew p. conte"
<itsbroke@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> hey heinlein, i'm not defending turdley in any way.  the apple ][ world
> would undoubtedly be better if he was gone.   read my post- i was just
> saying that you (or whoever fed the post through visi.com) sounded like an
> idiot.

As the subject suggests, you need to learn which USENET headers mean what.
The "References" header was the ONLY one in which visi.com appeared at
all. "References" indicates which messages preceded that message in the
thread. It does not indicate in any way who wrote the message itself. It
does refer, however, to Nathan's previous inflammatory post ("Turley:
STILL high on drugs"), but that was posted with full identification.

NOTE: I am not defending in any way Turley's piracy or Nathan's incessant
flamage. I am not taking sides in this argument.

As to the actual identity of the sender, look at a couple of more
meaningful headers...

Path: ...feed1.news.erols.com!zdc!szdc!newsp.zippo.com!zdrn

The article entered USENET through a free news service called Zippo Direct
Read News. (http://www.zippo.com/) This might seem like a dead end, BUT
look at this header:

NNTP-Posting-Host: sfdn12-194.sf.compuserve.com

The article was posted though Compu$erve. Now we have a dead end, unless
someone wants to trace down who was on that Compu$erve dialin at that
particular time... (?)