At 3:28 PM -0400 6/5/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm a columnist for the chicago tribune and someone has called my attention
>to the remailers on the net that allow you to construct the FROM: field as
>well as the TO: (manicmail; zoubidoo are two I've found). What do you know
>about these? Are they new? More common than I know? Do they pose any
>additional interesting problems legally, morally, ethically, whatever? Any
>sites on the web I ought to visit re. this?
>
>Eric Zorn
>Chicago Tribune
>http://www.chicagotribune.com/go/zorn/
>9450 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. Suite 650
>Rosemont, Il. 60018-5204
It's not limited to remailers.
Most email packages that I've used on PCs (Mac and Windows) ask
you to type in your return address when you set up the software.
The return address is not checked in any way, but blindly put into
the "From:" header.
Eudora, in particular, makes it easy to set up multiple "personalities",
each with it's own return address.
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-- Marshall
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Bill Clinton, State of the Union Address, January 23, 1996
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