Re: [asa] Inappropriate or threatening offlist email

Actually it is quite easy to confirm the "spoof" theory (or at least
get some evidence for it). What you have to do is to get your email
client to display the full headers of the message (how to do this
varies from browser to browser). This will give tracebacks right to
the IP address of the machine that it was sent from. You then compare
it with "genuine" messages from the sender.

That was the way the list owner of the other list I was on managed to
track it down - several offensive messages from different "senders"
turned out to have been all sent from the same computer.

Iain

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Murray Hogg <muzhogg@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> Hi Iain,
>
> The same had occurred to me - I'm not sure how one would confirm or refute
> such potentialities.
>
> I would suggest forwarding any such offensive / inappropriate e-mails to
> the group moderator(s) - only I don't know who that actually is!
>
> Could somebody "in charge" please comment on the appropriate course of
> action?
>
> Blessings,
> Murray
>
> Iain Strachan wrote:
>>
>> Something similar to this happened on another email list that I was
>> subscribed to (nothing to do with science-religion); increasingly
>> offensive posts were coming apparently from regular list contributors.
>> In the end what turned out to be the case was that a tech-savvy
>> impostor was faking the "sender" addresses, and so it appeared that
>> the contributions were coming from regular contributors, who were
>> entirely innocent.
>>
>> Iain
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Jack <drsyme@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> It saddens me to hear things like this.
>>>
>>> Nov 18, 2008 08:23:41 PM, smatheso@calvin.edu wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello all--
>>>
>>> I very recently received a disturbingly threatening private email message
>>> from a regular participant in this email list. If anything similar has
>>> happened to you, would you please contact me privately? Alternatively,
>>> consider notifying one of the folks in charge of the list. Thanks,
>>>
>>> Steve Matheson
>>>
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>>
>>
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