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In article <5jepdt$8...@news-central.tiac.net>, Brewman <me@here.usa>
writes
>In article <5jdsgb$l...@news.cableinet.net>, don't....@home.com wrote:
>
>Follow-up to Joona Vainio <joona....@pp.kolumbus.fi>, who wrote:
>>
>>  > Dirk Peters wrote:
>>  > 
>>  > > dutch <is not> Deutschland
>>  > 
>>  > Ah, sorry. Certainly not. Was fooled by your email address with .de
>>  > 
>>  > Assumed you were a German dealing Dutch warez. Apologies.
>>  > 
>>  > -lark-
>>
>>Sorry, there seems to be some confusion here.
>>
>>The header from the original post says pra...@net-art.de and the sig
>>says pra...@bigfoot.com. The path in the header information shows the
>>message appears to have been posted via a German news server as the
>>end of it (topnet.de) seems to suggest. Yet the poster says he is in
>>Holland.
>>
>>Could this suggest a poorly faked header or some attempt to hide
>>behind a defense of being set up by someone else if the goods are
>>really illegal?
>>
>
>No the original post came from someone in Germany, he/she is selling a Dutch 
>produced CD-ROM. As to them being illegal, I don't think that there is any 
>doubt that they are copies of games and not the originals. Which makes them by 
>definition, in the US at least, illegal.
>
>If the address is a fake then the poster is an idiot because who can respond 
>to his offer if it is not his address?

The message originated from a machine in the roka.net domain, and was
posted via one of their servers.

net-art.de is NOT a genuine domain, hence the "pra...@bigfoot.com"
address shown at the bottom of the original message. No doubt Bigfoot
will have taken action if anyone has mentioned this to them, since
advertising goods of an illegal nature is against their usage policy.

If you're going to do something dumb like announce to the world you're
selling illegal software, posting to a whole bunch of Usenet groups is
the sure-fire way of drawing unwanted attention to yourself. Sheesh...

Chris
-- 
Chris King
ch...@csking.demon.co.uk
http://www.csking.demon.co.uk