Subject: Message-Id header

From: "Norberto H. Altalef" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 10:19:45 -0300 (GMT-0300)

I would like to know if it's possible modify the contents of the
Message-ID header.
I'm interested in hide the host name from it.
I'm using pine 3.91 in HP-UX and Linux machines.

Any comments will be useful.
Many thanks

Norberto Altalef
<[email-masked]>

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From: [email-masked] (Jeff Mercer)
Date: 31 Dec 1995 00:03:14 GMT

>I would like to know if it's possible modify the contents of the

Sure.

>I'm using pine 3.91 in HP-UX and Linux machines.

What, tell you how to forge Message-ID headers so you can be a dickweed and
spam Usenet? Hah! Fuck off.

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 10:03:04 +0800 (GMT)

> spam Usenet? Hah! Fuck off.

	Some people feel that to reveal their hostname can result in
security problems.  Their intentions are not as you cite.  In any case
your use of profane language is inappropriate.

	Regards,

		Ed

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                                        Control Data Asia/Pacific Region
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From: Tim Pierce <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 22:27:10 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Ed Greshko <[email-masked]> wrote:

>security problems.  Their intentions are not as you cite.

Those people are nimrods.  Obscuring the origin of a message is a
security risk in its own right.  Besides, if the nature of your
organization is so sensitive that even revealing the name of a
machine within it is dangerous, then simply removing it from the
Message-ID is not a sufficient solution.  Post from a different
system.

>In any case

Crap.

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