> From: Guy Isabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:37:58 -0400 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT: IP address appears in header with sender info > > I don't see why the originating IP address being present in the header would > be objectionable "for a lot of people" (spammers excluded, of course). > Furthermore, as I wrote earlier, Geof's IP address is a private, internal, > non-routable one (192.168.1.63). Kind of hard for anyone to trace this IP > back to Geof -- or am I missing something?
It gives away internal network topology to some extent. Some people believe that none of their internal info should be exposed to the outside because it could be used, along with other information, in a break-in. -Josh To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
