[P1] virus

[Mike Beede]

On Wednesday, Jun 4, 2003, at 01:00 US/Central, don hinkle wrote:

> I hadn't heard about a computer user being able to hijack someone 
> else's
> email address...how is this done?

Someone else posted about this.  I offer an additional observation
for the non-geeks.

SMTP is a pretty good analog of the U. S. Mail.  If you want
to forge a letter from someone, you just put their return address
on the envelope.  Inspecting the postmark might reveal it came
from a different city.

	Mike