"J. van Baardwijk" wrote:
>
> <sidestep>
> When I first had the idea of building a complete Brin-L Archive, I thought
> it would be used for things like retrieving someone's e-mail address,
> checking how often a certain topic had been discussed in the past, or
> retrieving a specific book review or something. Little did I know that the
> Archive would mostly be used to provide evidence...
> </sidestep>
>
> Anyway, here goes:
>
> At 22:56 14-12-98 +0000, Julia Thompson wrote:
> >Any further instance of anyone on this list using my
> >e-mail address as their "from" could result in LEGAL ACTION. Watch it!
> >(I'm pretty damn sensitive about e-mail address forgery. Anyone using any
> >of my e-mail addresses to commit fraud is going to be looking at one hell
> >of a lawsuit. Just a friendly warning.)
>
> (This happened after an other Brineller sent a message to the list under
> Julia's name.)
Not just under my *name* -- that would have been less of a problem. It
was that the "from" indicated it was from my e-mail address.
I can handle someone just changing the name part of their profile to be
my name if the e-mail address isn't one that I use, but if you send
e-mail that has my name AND my e-mail address, that's a little more
serious. It's harder for me to prove that it wasn't me that sent it,
and depending on what gets sent under my name and e-mail address, I
could end up in trouble. And I was a lot more hypersensitive about the
whole thing at the time, as I was working for an ISP and *saw* the
serious consequences to such actions.
Julia
