I am under the impression that an email message actually is broken up into "packets" of information, that each packet travels through different smtp relaying servers until it arrives at the destination, and that then the packets are reassembled into the email message, AND -- here is my question -- that the headers reflect where all the various packets have traveled? Is this correct?
I find the spam discussion interesting, because I get so little of it (virtually none until about a year ago). I suspect that is in part because I use a "hotmail" type email address for any questionable places where one is required to leave an email address in exchange for information- even these addresses do not collect much spam. However, my one address which IS spam-central, which I have rarely used for anything, is the netscape.net address: that mailbox fills up rapidly with nothing but spam. This leads me to a theory that certain big players may be initiators of "master" lists of names, which once having been sold once, then essentially taint "forever" one's email address included on that list. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
