I received a piece of spam disguised as campaign literature.  
The odd thing was that the email claims to have originated 
at CNN.  I'm still figuring out how to parse headers, but it 
looks to me as if this post bounced through a couple of open 
relays and originated at Brisol-Meyers Squib.  

Can anyone tell me if I'm reading this correctly?  
How does someone direct email through multiple open relays?
Thanks in advance...

Here's the header:

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Subject: VOTE EARLY!!!!
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 20:18:29 +0500
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