Re: Fake headers on Internet mail

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From: Graham Toal
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 00:40

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In article <1992Aug12.151404.1424@lub001.lamar.edu> sherer@lub001.lamar.edu writes:

<apparently fake mail headers>

This happened by accident on a GEC SysV unix I used some years ago - you
would send mail, log out immediately, and someone else would log in pretty
sharply behind you on the same line.  The mail you sent out appeared to
come from the person who had just logged in.  Looked like the mail program
got your terminal id first, then looked up who was logged on that terminal
to guarantee it found the 'real' user.  Strange but true.

Graham
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From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Re: Fake headers on Internet mail
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 00:40:58 GMT
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