On Thu, 7 May 2009, Marc Perkel wrote:

> Granted that a spammer could forge received headers. Most don't.

It is still not uncommon, although in these days of compromised hosts 
masquerading as bots, it is less necessary.

> If a spammer is forging received lines that might be detectable if they 
> don't do a good job of it. 

They just need to do a "good enough" job to throw the more naive 
investigator off the scent.  Reasonably seasoned investigators can easily 
spot header forgery, however.

Jethro.

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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

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