~BD~ wrote:
> Meat Plow wrote:
>> ~BD~
>>> Dave - Guessing that Peter Foldes is masquerading as me - but *why*?
Presumably you are guessing that because PF has posted with the same
version number of OE to aioe. But it would be up to aioe to determine
the IP address from which it was posted. If you complained, you could
'steer' them in the direction of PF's other posts in your complaint.
>> Did you have exclusive rights to the nickname?
>
> No sir, as you know full well!
>
> However, my understanding is that a forgery, using someone else's email
> address, is against the terms of service of the Aioe.org NNTP Server
> and, indeed, the TOS of Eternal-September too.
Each news server has its own policies. Each news server also has its
own methods and difficulties of enforcing those policies.
> Is this not the case?
aioe does not have a written policy about forging. Their rules only
require that the poster have a syntactically correct From. Forging
might be considered to be under the vague category of netiquette.
aioe also does not have a registration requirement; so that creates an
extra level of difficulty for them to enforce anything.
Here is their policy
http://www.aioe.org/03.html and where you register
your complaint is given in the headers of their message and the
guidelines for complaining are here
http://www.aioe.org/25.html
> Has anyone any experience of reporting a 'forger' for abuse to either of
> the organisations I have mentioned?
Make the complaint. Gain the experience for yourself. It is a
legitimate complaint and aioe has its methods of enforcing abuse of its
news server.
--
Mike Easter