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Burns MacDonald wrote:
> 
> It would appear that this email is spoofed. In any case, it is not a
> very smart thing to do. Uttering death threats is an offence under the
> Criminal Code of Canada and one which is usually taken very seriously
> by the police, especially when there is written evidence. 
> It's
> also worth pointing out that there is no email, forged or otherwise,
> that cannot be traced with the appropriate warrants.

Assuming that the headers below are the complete headers, I don't see
anything that suggests to me the email was spoofed.  The travel-net.com
addresses listed in the headers are valid.  If I were Matt Byrd, I would
betalking to a lawyer and/or police as it is a death threat. 
Travel-net.com should be able to confirm that the message did come from
Wiper's dial-up and not just a travel-net.com customer who has set their
email to pretend they're Scott Wiper by checking their logs.  If they
show that his dial-up was assigned the IP address in question at the
time indicated by the headers and logs, then there is a high degree of
probability that it was indeed sent by Wiper.  It would probably take a
warrant for the police to get this information, but if I was
travel-net.com, I would consider doing this "internally" to ensure that
one of my customers wasn't using my service to utter death threats.

 
> > From Scott Wiper Tues Nov 09 23:27:42 1999
> > X-Apparently-To: matt_byrd@yahoo.com via mdd101.yahoomail.com
> > Received: from mail.travel-net.com (204.92.71.26) by
> > mta109.yahoomail.com with SMTP; 11 Apr 199923:33:09 -0700
> > Received: from default (trj7.travel-net.com [207.176.160.7]) by
> > mail.travel-net.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id
> > CAA26992 for <matt_byrd@yahoo.com>; Tues Nov 09,1999 02:29:32 -0400
> > Message-Id:<199911090659.CAA26992@mail.travel-net.com>
> > From: "Scott Wiper" <swiper@"NOUCE".travel-net.com>
> > To: "Matt Bryd" <matt_byrd@yahoo.com>
> > Subject: To Matt Byrd. watch you're back
> > Date: Tues, 09 Nov 1999 02:27:42 -0400
> > X-MSMail-Priority: Hi
> > X-Priority: 1
> > X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161
> > Content-Length: 688

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