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    Re: "EarthLink.Net" = spam ?... —Franklin W. Cain
   You're right in that the "real" sender's identity (or at least, sending location) can be traced via the headers, etc., and I know how to change my options to see all the headers/trailers/etc. I can see now how they could fake a return address and (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: "EarthLink.Net" = spam ?... —Matthew Miller
   (...) It's an old protocol, designed before people even thought about problems like this. (...) finger, probably, or the equivalent. One problem with this is that having sites give out information about the existence or nonexistence of given (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 

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