Re: [OT but important] Re: Claim your Free 4-In-1 Super Pen,it's beenpaid for by...

Thanks for the mercifully short discription.

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Donald Hosford

Roger Books wrote:

> On  4-Jul-01 at 02:57, Donald Hosford (Hosford.Donald@acd.net) wrote:
> > What really puzzles me about this SPAM business, is occasionally I
would
> > get spam that didn't have my address on it...Without my address, how
did I
> > receive it? Seems impossible....but there it is.
> >
> > Donald Hosford
>
> There are two parts to sending an e-mail.  First you connect up
> to the mail server and say who the recipient is.  Then, in the
> data section you write all the headers, things like From: and
> To: lines are headers.  The server delivers the e-mail based
> on the first section.  What you see in your e-mail client is
> whatever was written in the second section.
>
> Oh, the server is allowed to add things to the header section
> and usually does, things like senders IP address and routing
> information.
>
> If anyone needs more	information on the intracacies of SMTP
> please send to me directly as this isn't even remotely on
> topic.  It's time to go Out of Band.
>
> Roger
>
> (No, I don't do sendmail.cf scripting if I can at all help
>  it.)