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RE: Hiding IP in E-Mail..
From: chort <chort () amaunetsgothique com>
Date: 02 Sep 2003 10:25:42 -0700
On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 14:48, Mike Smith wrote:
And did anyone actually try a traceroute to "snow.email.ne.jp".....I couldn't find it anywhere - but I didn't try that hard to locate it. My 2 cents, he's on the spam-gang fast-track. And we *will* come for him in the night....
Well, generally I'm skeptical, but this domain has been registered for a while and the parent has been around since '97. A simple traceroute won't be very informative, trying using whois and dig. Just because a domain does not have an A record doesn't mean there's no MX (how else would they get mail?). Let's not start seeing spammers behind every rock and tree... -- Brian Keefer --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training Federal, September 29-30 (Training), October 1-2 (Briefings) in Tysons Corner, VA; the world's premier technical IT security event. Modeled after the famous Black Hat event in Las Vegas! 6 tracks, 12 training sessions, top speakers and sponsors. Symantec is the Diamond sponsor. Early-bird registration ends September 6.Visit us: www.blackhat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- RE: Hiding IP in E-Mail.. Mark Sargent (Sep 02)
- RE: Hiding IP in E-Mail.. Tim Greer (Sep 02)
- RE: Hiding IP in E-Mail.. Damian Lennon (Sep 02)
- Re: Hiding IP in E-Mail.. malxbox (Sep 02)
- Re: Hiding IP in E-Mail.. Tim Greer (Sep 02)
- RE: Hiding IP in E-Mail.. Damian Lennon (Sep 02)
- RE: Hiding IP in E-Mail.. Tim Greer (Sep 02)
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- Re: Hiding IP in E-Mail.. Tomas Wolf (Sep 02)
- RE: Hiding IP in E-Mail.. Mike Smith (Sep 02)
- RE: Hiding IP in E-Mail.. chort (Sep 02)
- RE: Hiding IP in E-Mail.. Gedi (Sep 02)
- RE: Hiding IP in E-Mail.. Gedi (Sep 03)