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Network users can send untraceable fake e-mailthrough port 25--an "open base" or area in thenetwork used to send and receive messages-in orderto avoid detection...
...Sending fake "write message"--messages whichare written directly to the screen of alogged-on-user--is also possible...
...first-year student says he sends fake writemessages through port 811, a similar open base...
Computer experts say there are ways to detectsome fake e-mail (please see graphic, thispage,) but most students do not know...
During a Harvard Computer Society seminar lastmonth called" Avoiding Big Brother," PhilCartagena '96, a society members, said that byusing mail reading programs that allow users tosee the whole mail header--such as the "mail" or"elm readers--students can sometimes tell theauthentic-students can sometimes tell theauthentic from the fake. Full headers generallyidentify the computer from which the mail wassent...