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Fwd: Re: forged addresses
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>From: "Chris Adams" <[email protected]>
>To: "cypherpunks" <[email protected]>
>Date: Thu, 30 May 96 01:32:54
>Reply-To: "Chris Adams" <[email protected]>
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>Subject: Re: forged addresses
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On 29 May 1996 19:38:16 pdt, [email protected] wrote:
>Hi, I'm not sure if there was ever a thread on this, but I was wondering if
>anyone can determine your real email address, if you were to fake it to your
>email client.
>
>I hope that this doesn't offend anyone, since this is a high traffic list, but
>I was wondering if this would work. To try it out, I setup my client to think
>I was someone else, and sent myself an email. I could only figure out what
>ISP it came from.
>
>What I would like to know is, can any of the experts on this list determine my
>address from the header of this post??
I didn't receive anything except your nobody@... address.
>again, if this is something that I shouldn't have done, just let me know, and
>it won't happen again.
>
Hmmm... I'm going to have to play around with this. I can get outbound
email access
through my school district's mailserver simply by filling in the
appropriate fields in
netscape (we have a WAN hooked up to a T1). It would seem to me that
this would be rather
secure for several reasons, if for no other than that NO logging is
made... In a large
district, like mine (probably 10-15 thousand potential users), I doubt
they would have the
resources to track any of the 100 or so Internet machines on my campus
alone, even if they
could tell it came from here.
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