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To: N3WBI3
1) Spam is almost never traceable, it usually comes from a bunk address

Sorry, you're incorrect: mailing headers which contain hostname/IP address are appended to every piece of email at every hop.

The most you can do here is to use a broken system and insert additional, incorrect information before passing along, but the host involved would have been tagged as broken by most RBLs within minutes.

67 posted on 04/11/2005 12:27:32 PM PDT by dfrussell
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To: dfrussell
The most you can do here is to use a broken system and insert additional, incorrect information before passing along

Which is what most spammers do, hence my statement Spam is almost never traceable, it usually comes from a bunk address Stands...

81 posted on 04/11/2005 12:57:07 PM PDT by N3WBI3
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