Re: How do they blank out IP addresses etc?

From: Alun Jones (alun@texis.com)
Date: 01/30/02 

From: alun@texis.com (Alun Jones)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:58:55 GMT

In article <a39ak3$lau$1@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca>, unruh@physics.ubc.ca (Bill
Unruh) wrote:
>In <bmS58.54$5o.109766@newsr2.u-net.net> "Dave Korn"
> <no.spam@my.mailbox.invalid> writes:
>] HOTMAIL!!!
>
>] It arrived at his machine by HTTP, which doesn't usually insert received
>]headers.
>
>http does not receive mail. Sendmail or its ilk receive mail. Sendmail or its
> ilk insert
>Received From lines everytime they receive mail.

I think that Dave is asserting that the "email", because it was from hotmail
to hotmail, didn't go through an MTA such as sendmail. It certainly sounds
plausible to me.

Alun.
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