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- From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
- Subject: Re: revisited, determining if anyone else is logged on
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.005958.14085@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
- References: <1992Nov30.184356.11189@cc.ic.ac.uk> <1ggn8oINNar1@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 00:59:58 GMT
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- In article <1ggn8oINNar1@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland) writes:
- > subbarao@fc.hp.com (Kartik Subbarao) writes:
-
- >> I can forge mail.
- > Yes, but if the user *replies* to the mail, you're either going to
- > (a) get found out, or (b) the reply will bounce and clue them in...
-
- I got news for you...lots of users won't clue in even if you put a big
- banner up there "THIS LETTER IS FORGED". I'm postmaster for McRCIM,
- and just recently I got a letter in my mailbox. Someone had sent mail
- to a broken address, saying "hello?". When it bounced, the user
- *replied to the bounce*, saying "hello?" again!
-
- der Mouse
-
- mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
-