RE: [Mid] Re:(Spammer)

Philippa wrote:
>Just out of curiosity, how does one go about forging an e-mail return
>address? Also, has anyone considered that the spammer, having sent us
>three in 24 hours, might have been on our list at one point, and was mad
>about some foolishness? I know I recognized the server's part of the
>address on 2 of them, and the third looked familiar. It rather looked to me
>like something a rude kid might have done.

Um, I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. ;-)

Seriously (and unfortunately), if you know much about how TCP/IP works
(the Internet protocol), it's actually rather trivial to forge an e-mail
return address. And even if you _don't_, several e-mail clients now
come with the capability of manually setting the "From:" and "Reply-To:"
addresses, so that you can redirect return mail. Several people I know
use this capability to block bulk e-mail programs from lifting their
e-mail addresses out of the postings to mailing lists and Usenet
newsgroups.

Security protocols prevent me from describing the actual steps in
forging e-mail on an open list. ;-)

Lyle FitzWilliam
Bergental, East
lyle@quodata.com Non animam contine.

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Received on Fri Dec 12 08:38:39 1997