[Introspective] no more plain text?

Andreas Sikkema ramdyne at xs4all.nl
Mon Feb 17 21:35:05 PST 2003


Dave Ewart wrote:

> On Monday, 17.02.2003 at 19:13 -0000, Matt Davis wrote:

>> I'd just like to point out... before I get flamed by you all... That I
>> did not send this e-mail... I've never heard of the person before and
>> would love to know how this abuse can happen!?

> Using a 'fake from' address is easy, sadly - it's just like putting a
> different 'Sender' address on a conventional postal letter.  There's
> nothing that stops someone doing this.

>From what I can see, the original sender was "aem4162" <aem4162 at woh.rr.com>

The Sender bit you (Matt) refer to is added by the list software so it
can track bounces.

Nothing to get worried about (apart from the quality of your email
application I'd think).

-- 
Andreas Sikkema



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