Re: the daily telegraph 11/01/00 page 19

["Brendan" <nadnerb_2000@NOSPAM.com.au>]

Wow! the telegraph actually used a near-relevant source? This is probably
about the most credible and reputable source they ever used

Brendan

Dan <dan@flex.com.au> wrote in article <85hiv5$c9d$1@the-fly.zip.com.au>...
> 
> Andrew <atailby@mpx.com.au> wrote in message
> 85h373$n4o$1@news1.mpx.com.au">news:85h373$n4o$1@news1.mpx.com.au...
> > this came out of yesterdays daily telegraph
> > ticket scam charges
> > An e mailer using the name "jeff kennett"has been identified as the
person
> > responsible for the latest problems plaguing melbournes automatic rail
> > ticketing machines.
> > Melbourne transport police have charged dozens of people over the scam.
> > In november, subscribers to the rail enthusiasts' internet mail list
> > Aus.rail were invited to play the "Metcard Pokies".
> > a  message from an anonymous email address told subscribers were told
how
> to
> > treat metrail's ticket machines like poker machines.
> > The message said if money was repeatedly inserted into the machines and
> then
> > cancelled, more than the original amount was sometimes returned.
> > The message also told how to make the machines malfunction.
> >
> > Now who says that newsgroups like ours make national newspapers every
day.
> > andrew
> >
> 
> The article can also be viewed in my Railway & Transport Page:-
> http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~phil05/articles.html
> 
> Cheers.
> -----------------------------
> Danny Mok
> dan@flex.com.au
> http://www.flex.com.au/~dan
> 
> 
>