Re[2]: question - how can email be sent from me that I didn't send

2002-06-23 Thread Joseph N.
On Sunday, June 23, 2002, Jonathan Angliss wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hope this gives you a hint as in how the system works. You mean how the system *should* work. It works like that for your mail and mine, and for the legitimate commercial mail we receive. But it

Re: Re[2]: question - how can email be sent from me that I didn't send

2002-06-23 Thread Jonathan Angliss
Hi Joseph, On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 13:05:49 -0500, you wrote: You mean how the system *should* work. It works like that for your mail and mine, and for the legitimate commercial mail we receive. But it doesn't work like that for most UBE that comes from fly-by-night senders. Sometimes the

Re[2]: question - how can email be sent from me that I didn't send

2002-06-23 Thread Lynn Turriff
Sunday, June 23, 2002, 10:50:29 AM, you wrote: JA Hi Lynn, JA On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 10:27:26 -0700, you wrote: I gather that only someone with SpamCop's resources has any chance of figuring out where the thing really came from ..? JA Depends on how easy you find it to type a command, or JA

Re[2]: question - how can email be sent from me that I didn't send

2002-06-23 Thread Lynn Turriff
Sunday, June 23, 2002, 8:42:50 PM, you wrote: TF Hello Lynn, TF On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 20:39:20 -0700 GMT (24/06/02, 10:39 +0700 GMT), TF Lynn Turriff wrote: LT I thought the last routing (closest to the body of the LT mail) was the originator ... no? TF Yes. But some spammers put fill in some

Re: Re[2]: question - how can email be sent from me that I didn't send

2002-06-23 Thread Jonathan Angliss
Hi Lynn, On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 20:39:20 -0700, you wrote: [snip] I have no problem with the command line, but it's not clear to me how this helps with a header that contains only my mail address in the header, in both the 'from' and 'to' positions .. or will it extract the *actual* sender's

Re: Re[2]: question - how can email be sent from me that I didn't send

2002-06-23 Thread Jonathan Angliss
Hi Lynn, On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 21:00:08 -0700, you wrote: Thanks .. Is there any way, apart from intuitive deduction, to identify which information is forged, and which genuine? Take a quick look at the headers... some (helpful) mail servers put in may be forged headers along with the