From: "Chris Adams" <adamsc@io-online.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 21:55:09 +0800
To: "cypherpunks" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: forged addresses
Message-ID: <199606070506.WAA20846@toad.com>
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On 29 May 1996 19:38:16 pdt, nobody@nowher.com wrote:

>Hi, I'm not sure if there was ever a thread on this, but I was wondering if 
>anyone can determine your real email address, if you were to fake it to your 
>email client.
>
>I hope that this doesn't offend anyone, since this is a high traffic list, but 
>I was wondering if this would work.  To try it out, I setup my client to think 
>I was someone else, and sent myself an email.  I could only figure out what 
>ISP it came from.
>
>What I would like to know is, can any of the experts on this list determine my 
>address from the header of this post??
I didn't receive anything except your nobody@... address.
>again, if this is something that I shouldn't have done, just let me know, and 
>it won't happen again.
>
 Hmmm... I'm going to have to play around with this. I can get outbound email access 
through my school district's mailserver simply by filling in the appropriate fields in 
netscape (we have a WAN hooked up to a T1).  It would seem to me that this would be rather 
secure for several reasons, if for no other than that NO logging is made... In a large 
district, like mine (probably 10-15 thousand potential users), I doubt they would have the 
resources to track any of the 100 or so Internet machines on my campus alone, even if they 
could tell it came from here.

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