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Timo's identity and messages verification page.

Prof. Timo Salmi. University of Vaasa, Finland

Usenet news postings and email are notoriously easy to forge. Web pages are not as easy to crack. One purpose of this page is to authenticate as my own some postings or email whose authenticity might have been challenged.
 
My own identity  can be verified using the following logic. I am a tenured university professor of accounting and finance at the University of Vaasa, Finland. Forging an entire Finnish university with its thousands of www pages, surface addresses, phone numbers, personal rosters, lectures, scientific publications and everything, year after year is a practical impossibility. Furthermore, several hundred of the web pages on our university's server are mine (including the current one). The whole setup is far too involved to be amenable to prolonged forgery. Hence those select postings which I here say are mine, certainly are. Likewise, the example postings that I label as forgeries, are exactly that.
 
Authentication examples:
 
From: ts(ät)UWasa.Fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Pointer: Foiling spam and other procmail email-filter tips
Date: 6 Nov 2004 20:05:28 +0200
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Message-ID: <cmj3p8$pi6@poiju.uwasa.fi>
 
cnkbnm$dqs@poiju.uwasa.fi
cnkbv4$dug@poiju.uwasa.fi

 
From: ts(ät)UWasa.Fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: sfnet.aloittelijat.kysymykset
Subject: Re: e-mail osoite
Date: Date: 28 Jan 2005 08:44:48 +0200
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Message-ID: <ctcn10$rq3@poiju.uwasa.fi>
 

Forgery examples:
 
av.10753367843686.43551@poiju.uwasa.fi
 
 
Where:
 
The links are made to the Google repository, since postings stay on the ordinary newsservers for a limited time, only. On the other hand, if the posting is very fresh (say under a day), the copy might not yet be available at Google. Note, however, that there is no guarantee that Google's reference system will stay stable.
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