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   "catpandaddy"  wrote in message   
   news:i7l58l$ith$1@news.eternal-september.org...   
   > This is not good.   
   >   
   > Well, someone brought to my attention that one of my Usenet accounts has   
   > been hacked.  I created a backup account on AIOE for reading messages when   
   > my primary account would get bogged down for whatever reason.   
   >   
   > Only thing is, AIOE is no-password anonymous-login only.  And it appears   
   > that whoever appropriated my account has been doing a lot of hate speech   
   in   
   > random newsgroups for some time.   
      
   Unlikely it's been "hacked" - it's EXTREMELY easy to post messages that   
   pretend to be from someone else (just ask numeroud idiots who do it all the   
   time).   
      
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