I don't have an account on this machine. The machine doesn't seem to care. Does the machine keep a record of this letter, I don't know?

You don't need an account on the machine, but I can still tell that you came through amtel.com, and most likely originated from the machine "bass", but I can't be sure about that. Yes, machines do keep logs of all mail transactions, so I could theoretically track down that message. It's not difficult. Granted, it would probably take me some time to track this down truely, although I know that you do get the cypherpunks list in some fashion, so I can recursively track down everyone on the cypherpunks list until I find you. (I'm not going to do that, since its not worth my time, but it's possible!) Yes, using the "mconnect" command will let you type anything you want. Like I said, forging e-mail is trivial, but it down't buy you anything. There are always logs at some point! -derek

Yes, using the "mconnect" command will let you type anything you want. Like I said, forging e-mail is trivial, but it down't buy you anything. There are always logs at some point!

btw: mconnect <host> is the same as the command: telnet <host> smtp