Re: Who am I?

From: Gregory L. Hansen (glhansen_at_steel.ucs.indiana.edu)
Date: 11/12/03 

Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:16:47 +0000 (UTC)

In article <sevsb.474$lK3.63@news.level3.com>,
Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> wrote:
>In article <botovt$anf$3@hood.uits.indiana.edu>,
>Gregory L. Hansen <glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
>>In article <8rtsb.470$lK3.461@news.level3.com>,
>>Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> wrote:
>>>In article <botntl$amo$1@hood.uits.indiana.edu>,
>>>Gregory L. Hansen <glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
>>>>I can, but an Originator: line is automatically appended that I can't
>>>>over-rule, so I'm not sure it's worth the effort.
>>>
>>>It's possible that this is being put in by the news server, not the
>>>client. Does your news server require a login and password?
>>
>>It does, indeed.
>
>Then you may need to complain to the news administrators. Some servers
>have options to keep the identification information in a log, but not
>include it in the header that's sent out. Instead they use a header line
>that contains a code that the administrator can look up in the log to
>determine the actual user that sent a message, in case someone complains to
>the abuse group.

I've asked them how I could spoof my address in news, and they said I
can't. They suggested using one of the free web-based accounts for
posting to newsgroups. I could say a few words on their suggestions on
the web pages for spam reduction and then ensuring those suggestions
can't be followed on the school systems, but you're not the one that
needs to hear it. And the people that the students talk to aren't the
ones that need to hear it, they're just the tech support. 

-- 
"Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, then perhaps we shall find the 
truth... But let us beware of publishing our dreams before they have been 
put to the proof by the waking understanding." -- Friedrich August Kekulé

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