From: rishab@dxm.ernet.in
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 94 05:36:16 PDT
To: joshua@cae.retix.com
Subject: Faking hostnames and inconvenient anon IP
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joshua geller <joshua@cae.retix.com>:

> [on IRC]
> > Fraid not....it's a trivial matter to fake the username, and if yer a 
> > smart cookie, faking the hostname is just as easy.
>
> as far as I know, you have to hack the server to fake hostname.
>
> historically this practice has been frowned upon by the majority
> of IRC administrators.

Oh, there are other ways of faking hostnames, depending on your level of access
to systems (your closest nameserver, for example). My point was that it's not
quite as convenient to have anon IRC (or any other IP protocol) as it is to send
anon mail through a remailer.

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