Can DC/NS track down who sent an offensive email message?

Can DC/NS track down who sent an offensive email message?

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Sometimes - and we are certainly interested in hearing about any "junk e-mail" ("spam") or other offensive e-mail that might be received on the UAB campus. The only way we can hope to track down who is responsible for offensive e-mail is if we have access to the full Received headers within each e-mail message. If you destroy the message, you will destroy our only clues. There are ways for a sophisticated hacker to disguise the true originating location of e-mail messages; in those cases, we can at least contact the Internet service provider involved and request that they prevent a recurrence or be blocked from sending messages onto campus.
Posted by Lauren Ritchie on 7/15/2008 10:10:00 AM

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