Re: Email i have not sent

From: alan (alan_at_alan.alan)
Date: 04/28/03 

Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:49:17 GMT

"Jim Watt" <jimwatt@aol.no.way> wrote in message
news:0ieoav8jr3389po29868bcgjk5u9qdu27t@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 11:16:20 GMT, "alan" <alan@alan.alan> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Rob" <r1_ffc@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:b8gab8$dc8$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >This sounds like you're running a mail server on your machine
>
> No, its more likely someone else is doing it with
> forged FROM headers The secret is to read the
> headers and identify the source ISP..
>

Don't be so quick to dismiss a possibility simply because
it wasn't you who thought of it.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/4217
A

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