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Re: Email tracer.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Kaplan)
Fri Oct 11 18:11:06 1996

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 <Pine.A32.3.90.961010181018.36159B-100000@rsfddi3.cem.itesm.mx>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 08:16:40 -0500
To: www-security <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
From: Ray Kaplan <ray@rayk.com>
Cc: Jorge Meneses Lopez <jmeneses@campus.cem.itesm.mx>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

On Thu, 10 Oct 1996 18:13:55 -0500 (CDT)
Jorge Meneses Lopez <jmeneses@campus.cem.itesm.mx> writes:

>Hi!, I'm interesting to know how do you trace an email? Can you tell me
>at least the name of a book or site were can i learn that?

Quite pedestrain.  For a simple start, use your favorite search engine to
look for "mail spoofing".  A query of http://metacrawler.cs.washington.edu/
(one of the so-called metasearch engines) reveals a pretty good list of
starting points.

As a friend says:  Y'all be careful out there!

RayK



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