ON Tuesday, September 3, 2002, 4:01:56 PM, you wrote:
JA> So you went to the trouble of looking up that information? I can do JA> exactly the same *without* the mid of the message. Just look at any of JA> the headers in the line of the email I just sent. Sure, but you have to know what you are doing. JA> Plus that information is only going to exist if the mid is being JA> sent from a server that is tagged to a valid domain, plus the JA> technical information is correct. Not only that, but that is only JA> going to give you the company, and technical information about who JA> runs the domain. That information is freely available to anybody JA> that uses a whois database. I agree. JA> And a final point would be that the information you are getting JA> won't tell you anything about Carrie who works in the support office JA> sending from the same server. JA> Yes you have my details, but *I* didn't send the mail. The thing is, by using this bit of info that TB! attaches the organization can be easily identified. That I can't tell if you or Carrie sent the msg is of limited interest. Usually a organization is enough to drop by and do a search :-) Without wanting to take this discussion to far, it is my view that I should have control over all the extra info provided that goes beyond that needed to perform the function. -- Best regards, Gerard -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Using The Bat! v1.61 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
