On Sunday, September 8, 2002, at 04:29 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: > 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.
That's a possibility because all machines look to the outside world as though they are coming from lml.homedns.org. > > 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. SMTP is done with the local machine, so the domain could have been reverse-engineered from that. But, her other e-mail addresses don't have "ruth" as the name. I just checked the accounts for my kids, which have also never been used for mail. My daughter's had nothing, but my seven year old son had spam in his. > 3) They have time travel. Or crop circles have something to do with it. -- Lee Larson, Mathematics Department, University of Louisville Phone: 502-852-6826 FAX: 502-852-7132 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>.
