Offtopic: Email header query

[Julian Field]

At 20:32 28/09/2002, you wrote:
>At 13.51 28/09/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>>Can you post an example of what you're talking about?
>X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with
>any abuse report
>  X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - somedoman.com
>X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - domain.com
>X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32028 529] / [32028 529]
>X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - somedomain.com

Most people these days use packages such as Eudora or Outlook and won't
even know how to see these headers, so for > 90% of users they are pretty
useless.

I have a relatively well-informed group of users here at Southampton, and
most of them don't know how to do it. They report spam by forwarding the
body of the message to me without any headers whatsoever :-(
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
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Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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