> From:  Kerry Barlow
>
> So this is just one more wonderful loophole in the TCP protocal.


When I first installed e-mail for my employer in 1995 I distributed a set of
e-mail guidelines in an attempt to educate users about e-mail.  Two points I
made then and still make today were:

"e-mail is as secure as a postcard.  Anybody along the route can read what
you wrote on a postcard, anybody along the route can read what you wrote in
e-mail.

You have no assurance that e-mail is from who it says it is From: any more
than you can be sure that a piece of mail is from who it says it is from."

My users seemed to "get it" that it's not really a loophole in e-mail.  It's
the way it's always been, even in the snail mail world.

Don

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