That's very weird. Only options I can think of are: 1) She gave her address out. i) Is her user 'ruth' ? When she goes to websites? It could be they reverse looked up your home ip address, and added ruth to it. ii) It's possiblee some place where she has to log in as ruth decided to make a guesstimate based on knowing a user name of ruth and reverse ip'ing. iii) Some program on the client side decided to make up that email based on domain name knowledge and submitted it. This seems unlikely if your family setup is akin to the one I have as the family member would never run anything on the machine which would report itself as that name.
2) They guessed. ii) Does anything to xxx at yourdomain.dns.com get directed to her because she's the top user or something? It may happen on the email server, making her name appear at the top. 3) They have time travel. Have you looked at the headers to the emails to see which IPs they came from. You might be able to see a pattern if u start looking at the first mail. Apart from that, I dunno. It's very weird. On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Lee Larson wrote: > She's never given the address out to anyone because she didn't know > there was an address there. I've never given the address to anyone. How > did her address get out? The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
