Re: Email i have not sent

From: alan (alan_at_alan.alan)
Date: 04/29/03 

Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 12:17:16 GMT

> "alan" <alan@alan.alan> wrote:
>This sounds like you're running a mail server on your machine
> >"Jim Watt" <jimwatt@aol.no.way> wrote in message
> > 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..
>>>alan" <alan@alan.alan> wrote:
> >>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

"Dazz" <cashdj@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:t9kqavc2vrudii851ar65fidhc350n8b1t@4ax.com...
> After reading the above response, I have two questions for you.
>
> 1. How old are you? [1]
not so old that I cannot accept the possibility of something new happening.

> 2. Exactly how are you related to Tracker? [2]
assuming she's from this planet, probably related somehow.

> While what you have suggested is certainly possible, I tend to agree
> with Jim that the cause is more than likely from forged FROM headers.
I did not automatically rule out that suggestion.

> [1] The "... because it wasn't you who thought of it." comment sounds
> like something a 6 year old would say.
and so it was intended... as answering to my valid suggestion
(regarding current a worm in the wild) with a sentance beginning with "No"
is something young boys start doing at about the age of three,
and continue to do until they finally discouver that other people also
exist.

> [2] Tracker believes every single common computer "glitch" or "issue"
the situation as described, could hardly be called a computer "glitch",

> is caused by "hackers installing open servers and VPN's etc on victims
> machines",
as noted in the URL I provided, that is exactly what's going around right
now,
except that it is spammers doing the deed, not malicious hackers.
or maybe you think that Tracker is writing news for "securityfocus.com"

> when there can be a perfectly legitimate reason - in this
> case, forged FROM headers.
again I do not disagree with this possibility,
but certainly don't see it as something "perfectly legitimate"
something that's happened more often in the past, perhaps,
but it's stupid to just say "No", to a current possibility that we're
being warned about, by aknowledged experts in the field of computer security
A

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