At 09:10 AM 4/25/01 -0400, Peter Kaulback wrote the following:
>In the wee hour of 07:41 PM 4/24/01 -0700, Gerald E. Boyd bequeathed such
>tales as these:
>>At 08:42 PM 4/24/01 -0400, Peter Kaulback wrote the following:
>>
>>>>TIP: When replying to someone directly from a mailing list, do NOT type the
>>>>address -- always "cut-and-paste" from the mailing list to the new message
>>>>to insure that you don't accidently mistype the address.
>>>
>>>Thanks Gerry, and if you cut and paste with your mouse then be sure to
>>>trim the extra blank character off the end, it always happens to me. My
>>>email is a sub address and my provider has rules for subs, these are
>>>that sub addresses must be no longer than eight characters in length,
>>>hence I dropped the c from my last name. If anyone would like to check
>>>out the program themselves then please proceed to
>>>http://www.er.uqam.ca/merlin/fg591543/bsm/ and for the curios persons,
>>>the url in the readme points to an invalid military address. Enjoy.
>>
>>Bad bad idea. "From:" headers are the easiest to forge.
>
>Ok Gerry you lost me, though being up all night with active x didn't help
>either. What exactly is the bad idea, is it about the sub email
>addresses? Let me clarify for you. My ISP has many email servers for
>different plans: there is the original 'idirect.com' for the "main
>accounts", 'idirect.ca' for their sub accounts, and now the 'look.ca' for
>both the main and sub accounts. Though I'm likely mistaken as this is
>your bag, right Gerry? I think I'll delve more into the headers again and
>start sending message's between my addy's too.
The web site you quoted mentions a program called "Bounce Spam Mail" It uses
the "From:" header to send fake bounce messages to spammers to pretend your
address is invalid.
"From:" headers should NEVER be trusted in spam mail, or any other mail
message as they are the easiest to forge.
No problem with sub or indirect addressing.
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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