Re: How do they blank out IP addresses etc?

From: John Perry (JohnPerry@redoak.co.ukNOSPAM)
Date: 01/28/02

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    From: John Perry <JohnPerry@redoak.co.ukNOSPAM>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:16:27 +0000

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    ><va7b5ukf6pboqkgm91fksd1th4vc04nlqm@4ax.com> divulged:
    >
    >>They were the real headers.
    >
    >it's not that they aren't real, it's that they aren't _complete_. there
    >should be at least one received header in every message.

    OK, my wrong choice of words. Those were the complete headers I
    received - what the guy has done is munged up the X-Originating-IP so
    that no IP address appears. In all three cases, I took the headers from
    Outlook Express using Message Properties, Details, Message Source 

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