Quoting Edward Cherlin ([email protected]):

> Or got her e-mail address from someone else's account, or from any
> public source. It is discouragingly easy to forge headers on e-mail,
> and pretend that it came from anybody the spammer likes, or sometimes
> dislikes. Hence Joe jobs.

Ed, I was one of the recipients of the eponymous joe job in 1997, the
attempt by a spammer to carry out a revenge attack against Joe Doll of
Saratoga, CA.  I think I'd know a joe job.  This _did_ come from the
compromised Yahoo account and _did_ come from Yahoo.  One can easily
tell from the last-hop Received header, which uniquely cannot be forged.  

I've spoken to Hilary's husband, this morning.  They were aware of the
security compromise, and are taking corrective measures.

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