Doug wrote, > virus checkers > telling me an email I never sent to someone I don't know was > infected. The identity of the real source is usually in the > "X-Sender:" field; the address in the "From:" field is forged.
Checking all the internet headers of the message I got suggests that it originally might have come from merrimack.edu, that is, Merrimack College, instead of from the pen-l server. A quick check of Merrimack's economics department reveals that Jack Amariglio, who might be on pen-l, is there. Or maybe someone else on pen-l is there. It might be that when a pen-l message was delivered to Merrimack a virus/worm generated the message I got. Or maybe not. Eric
