Where's all this religious nonsense come from?

someone with a little too much red wine on the go i suspect!!!  But a 
post full of religious stuff appears under my name???? not sure where 
that came from, as it certainly wasnt posted by me!!

Toffee wrote:
> Where's all this religious nonsense come from? 
> 
>

Hi,

this has been happing quiet a bit on the newsgroups.

I've cut and pasted a message from virginmedia.support.usenet, while untidy 
due to quotes and > should give you the jist.

A J


On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:24:53 GMT, Colin Brough
<Colin.Brough@blueyonder.invalid> wrote:

>Hi support
>
>I know you have just finished for the night, but could you pick this
>up in the morning. I've just seen a flood of posts to uk.comp.os.linux
>posted from a virginmedia.com IP (appears to on ubr09 in Edinburgh)
>that are spamming the group. Worse, posts are impersonating headers
>from previous posters, including me - which is what made me
>particularly notice. The spamming appears to have picked up From:
>Newsgroups: and Subject: lines from posts in the last couple of days,
>but changed the message body to the spam stuff and probably also added
>a cross-post or two for good measure.
>
>For instance here is the complete header from one of the posts
>purporting to be from me:
>
> Path: 
> text.news.blueyonder.co.uk!pe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail
> Message-ID: <dg6e99$5oa.tj3@brough.bd>
> From: Colin Brough <Colin.Brough@blueyonder.invalid>
> Newsgroups: it.scienza.ambiente,uk.comp.os.linux
> Subject: Re: NAS attached printers in a mixed OS network?
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:38:56 GMT
> References:  
> Lines: 28
> NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.192.11.216
> X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com
> X-Trace: fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk 1201210736 80.192.11.216 (Thu, 24 Jan 
> 2008 21:38:56 GMT)
> NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:38:56 GMT
> Xref: brough.bd uk.comp.os.linux:183980
>
>All of the messages seem to be posted from 80.192.11.216
>
>Could you chase this up and see whether it constitutes an AUP breach -
>appears to be spamming groups and worse impersonating virginmedia
>customers...
>
>Cheers
>
>Colin

Same thing here.

Two posts in separate newsgroups from my address, but definitely not
sent by me, and I'm the only one that uses this computer.

someone has forged the headers in their email and sent it into the
group by email.