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Clueless Train.


Journalists are still ripe for spoofing (1) Faking the sending address of a transmission in order to gain illegal entry into a secure system. See e-mail spoofing.

(2) Creating fake responses or signals in order to keep a session active and prevent timeouts.
 and scamming, the Seventh Annual Survey of the Media in the Wired World finds. Only 44 percent would not use a Web chat room or newsgroup newsgroup

Internet forum for discussion of specific subjects. Newsgroups are organized into subjects (e.g., automobiles); each typically has several subgroups (e.g., classic cars, Formula One racing cars).
 posting as sources for stories. No response on how many would use notes tacked to a tree in the middle of the woods.
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Title Annotation:majority of journalists would use chat room as story source
Author:Taylor, Jeff A.
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Date:Jul 1, 2001
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