[wg-review] Re: spoofed header

[Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

2/1/01 2:37:57 PM, Greg Burton <sidna@feedwriter.com> wrote:

>All,
>Note that the post attributed to Mr Conant in the thread "Re:[PRIVATE] has 
>the following headers:
>From: Derek Conant - DNSGA <dconant@dnsga.org>
>Subject: [wg-review] RE: [PRIVATE]
>X-Mailer: Opera 5.00 build 828
>X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>and is signed by Mr Sotiropolos. Lacking the organization header, and with 
>the X-Mailer showing that same build of Opera 5.00 as Mr Sotiropolos, it 
>appears that the FROM header has been spoofed, and the mail is indeed not 
>from Mr. Conant.
>
>While this is a clear demonstration of why either a cookie or password 
>based voting system is preferable to one conducted on an email list, it is 
>entirely inappropriate for a serious discussion.

Yes, that was odd.  I don't rightly know what happened.  I cannot account for it. 
I was responding to the List... but the initial message I chose to respond to (*without quoting
the content*) was from Mr. Conant.  I am at a loss as to why this happened, and I certainly
did not do it intentionally.






Sotiris Sotiropoulos
          Hermes Network, Inc. 


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