On Monday 28 Apr 2008 1:45:21 am rene wrote: > (don't get the point why this touches your > interest), and only 'mis'used email-id's once in a while to send friends > birthday greetings from the president of the berlin senate or alike. > And, would you (!) be in a position to misuse my postal address? Yes, > once you have it you can write it on any letter you are going to send. > It's nothing else with email, you can use whatever you like as a sender > (as long as your email server accepts that). There is no difference > between the trustworthy of an senders email in an email header than the > senders address at any letter you get.
Oh absolutely. Absolutely. But every cheat and criminal ( I am not implying that you are one) uses the same excuses as you are using, and many con-men start with the line "Trust me." One vagabond who was relieving my house of a garden fixture asked me "How come you are so concerned about my entering your compound? After all postmen and others enter with impunity" Why does it bother me? My defences go up when a person misuses email ids and says "trust me" even if he is otherwise like Mother Teresa. It is not normally necessary for people to go about things in this way. Such a person may not be "bad" - but he is certainly different and I make a living out of picking up differences. Would I trust such a person? Perhaps - in time, it would take time to figure out that a person who misuses email and says "You have to trust me" is actually trustworthy - especially if his email found its way into my mailbox masquerading as someone else, rather than my soliciting his opinion. Hope you are able to understand the difference that identities make in the way people feel. shiv
