On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 14:56, Rick Moen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Ah, I see. I had not heard that you had a chance to look at the headers. > I've spoken to Hilary's husband, this morning. They were aware of the > security compromise, and are taking corrective measures. Good. -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
