Actually, Michael, that was me, not Scott Holder.
I was interested trying what you said for two reasons. First, I was curious
to find out how difficult it is to do what you said. I remember, years ago,
when I first got onto the internet I would send to friends messages with
fake sender addresses. I don't remember how I did it, but I would choose
unusual servers, Vatican, I remember, was one (my messages actually did go
through these servers). But here I was interested whether the maclaunch
server would accept a faked address, thereby allowing a non-member to send
a message to the list.
The second reason concerned [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quite some time ago Linda
posted provocative messages. I believe they were not quite as outrageous as
her last one ("George, you are a total asshole."), but some of her messages
were of that kind. I often thought that poster is seeking trouble. I wonder
whether Dan, the list owner, would be interested to find out who the sender
was. Whoever it was, he is a careful observer of this list.
Now, coming back to the address faking, I tried to fake the
X-Original-Message-ID" but I couldn't do it. I use Eudora Pro v3, and it is
quite flexible, but something I am doing not right.
Hermann
> From: Michael Martin
> Date: 11/2/02, 9:23 PM -0500
>
> On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 01:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > But what would this message show in "X-Original-Message-ID"?
> >
> > Testing how easy it is.
>
>
> Not bad. I am going to guess this is really from Scott Holder
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> though.
>
> Yes the X-Original-Message-Id has
> <v03130302b9e92c12d8d1@[129.37.39.156]> and the 129.37.39.156 is a
> mindspring.com IP address, not an AOL IP address. So unless Linda
> suddenly got a mindspring account and has decided to use it to really
> confuse us even further, this message was most likely from Scott. :-)
>
> Actually, one can also forge the X-Original-Message-Id without too much
> difficulty. As I understand it the listserve takes the incoming message
> ID and simply forwards it as the X-Original-Message-Id. All one needs
> to do is lie a little BETTER to the listserver. :-)
>
> If folks want a demonstration, I will. Anyone want to volunteer their
> e-mail address? Since I use earthlink, it would be a good idea if it
> were an address not associated with earthlink. I am asking for a
> volunteer since I do not want to make anyone mad by usurping their
> address without their permission, even if temporarily and in a limit
> set of circumstances like this. I will send it to the list as well as
> CC to myself. I will then forward both sets of headers so everyone can
> compare the two. While the CC'd message will leave tracks, the message
> the listserver sends should not have much in the way of identifiable
> information.
>
> ==================================================================
> Michael Martin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ==================================================================
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