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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ross F. Jimenez)
Thu Nov 9 03:21:28 1995

Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 22:17:51 -0700 (MST)
From: "Ross F. Jimenez" <rfjimen@tesuque.cs.sandia.gov>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <951108212142.ZM2855@plipp>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

I have a question... you can telnet to a mail port (25) and send mail 
from it,,to any person, and put it's from anybody you want, are you not 
suppose to do this,, or can anybody do this, can the mail be tracked ?? 
It would seem like a big security flaw if you could send false mail so 
easily... ??? 
			Curious, 


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