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> There were also some minor errors in the "Received" area if you want to have > a look at that, but it's a quick job and not that hard to spot. It came from a compuserve machine. So you're telling me someone else from cserve is doing it? > A friend tells me as I see Andy has explained to you that with a litle more > time a knowledgeable person can make the headers completely identical so that > no one can tell the difference. Andy hasn't got a clue of what he's talking about. > There is a utility called a PGP that allows a sender on the internet to > encrypt a part of the header for verification by another PGP user. This > would allow the sender to prove, say in a court of law, that whatever > statement that was made in his name was not actually made by him, but by > another. I know all about PGP. Hell, I was playing with it back in 1990 before anyone had heard of it. I do network security for a living. The other fakes I traced to a domain somewhere else. The "Joel Markwell" fakes reall look like they came from a compuserve machine and compuserve account - your account. > But it wasn't really necessary to go through all this cloak and dagger; it > really only took a moment's reflection and even a cursory look at the writing > style and content to have a pretty good guess at where this came from--I > don't really think it came from you. And did you really think I would write > GEORGE'S insults for him?--DUH! <g> As you said, "tugs of the guineess". Never know what happens. I personally think you posted it trying to be sarcastic and then after reading it realized "sarcasm and the internet don't go hand in hand" and then tried to cover it up. > But then like I said--gutless. . . . > > JoeL Ken -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ken Sallot "I'm not flying. I'm falling, with style" CIRCA - Buzz Lightyear kens@uf*.ed* (352) 392-2007 http://grove.ufl.edu/~ken -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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