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to: Maurice Kinal
from: Russell Tiedt
date: 2005-02-20 14:01:44
subject: talking to myself

Hello Maurice.

19 Feb 05 09:50, you wrote to me:

 RT>> Well I have seen origin lines and others "tampered"
with by other
 RT> RT>> systems, and in most cases the MSGID remained intact, so it
 RT>> showed the originating system, which was not reflected in the
 RT>> origin or elsewhere, tho if one was malicious, I suppose that
 RT>> could also be tampered with.

 MK> That could happen.  The ones I've seen where only the origin line was
 MK> altered was due to faulty setup(s) or buggy software and not due to
 MK> maliciousness, or so it appeared.  I had some fun with the concept
 MK> when it reared it's ugly head in another echo but am glad it got
 MK> rectified.  :-)

All that I have seen could be ascribed to those causes, none that I was 
prepared to call malicious, but it could happen ...

Russell

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