Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 12:55:03 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: eyager@novagate.com (Eric Yagerlener) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Forgery from From FreeBSD site? -- Your Water (fwd) Message-ID: <19970802125503.IT56218@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.96.970801201927.217A-100000@localhost>; from Eric Yagerlener on Aug 1, 1997 20:24:28 -0400 References: <Pine.BSI.3.96.970801201927.217A-100000@localhost>
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As Eric Yagerlener wrote:
> I recieved this scam that appears to have come from a FreeBSD site. Did
> this actually come from freebsd.org or was this a forgery from
> 1stfamily.com that somehow got my name off of the list?
You should learn how to read mail headers.
> Received: from mailhost.1stfamily.com (ns.1stfamily.com [208.15.229.1])
> by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA10311
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> for <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:53:21 -0700 (PDT)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
So it's pretty clear that it originated from ns.1stfamily.com, or
maybe some internal host at 1stfamily.com.
Why do you look at From addresses at all?
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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