Reading newsgroup identity?

On July 7, 1991, the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup was created by Scientology critic Scott Goehring, who describes starting the newsgroup "because I felt Usenet needed a place to disseminate the truth about this half-assed religion" and in part as a joke (Wired Magazine 1995:3.12). Additionally, Newsday reported that Goehring started the newsgroup to demonstrate the behaviour of Scientologists to his girlfriend (Newsday, October 10 1995). The original Usenet newgroup message used to create the newsgroup was formatted in a manner to disguise the actual identity of the poster. A bogus email address, "miscaviage@flag.sea.org" (a misspelling of "David Miscavige," the current head of Scientology's Religious Technology Center), was inserted into the newsgroup creation message. Because of this, persons speaking in favor of Scientology frequently claim that "a forgery" was used to create the newsgroup. Scientology has used this argument in its requests to have the entire newsgroup removed from Usenet, but this argument has been nearly unanimously rejected by system administrators and ISPs alike.