Weird email messages with "re:movie" and "re:application" in the subject line..

John Payne john at sackheads.org
Thu Jun 26 17:45:54 UTC 2003




--On Wednesday, June 25, 2003 23:37 -0400 "Steven M. Bellovin" 
<smb at research.att.com> wrote:

> And I've gotten bounces from mail allegedly from me.  It's not L3's
> fault; this particular worm forges From: lines on its email.

fault is debatable.  Because forgeries are now so common, particularly in 
worms, why would you send these notifications to anyone other than the 
recipient?  Let the human decide if the right thing to do is notify the 
sender.





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