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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!yuma!lamar!dan
  3. From: dan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Danilo Silva)
  4. Subject: Re: How to write a "turnin" utility??
  5. Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
  6. Message-ID: <Dec29.212116.55124@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
  7. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:21:16 GMT
  8. References: <C010F5.9D6@news.iastate.edu> <1hpr33INNco0@rave.larc.nasa.gov> <0291H&pdqb@atlantis.psu.edu>
  9. Nntp-Posting-Host: lamar.acns.colostate.edu
  10. Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523
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  13. In article <0291H&pdqb@atlantis.psu.edu> barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
  14. >... stuff deleted
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  16. >    That's the first time I've ever heard someone call email "secure".
  17. >Evidently our definitions of "secure" differ.
  18. >
  19. >    A mail solution can be trivially spoofed.
  20. >
  21. >--Dave
  22. >-- 
  23. >System Administrator, Population Research Institute    barr@pop.psu.edu
  24. >A .sig quote is like a summer job, okay for a few months but not much more.
  25.  
  26. What do you mean by e-mail being trivially spoofed??
  27.  
  28. Sorry if it's a stupid question, but I'm trying to learn as much as I can .
  29.  
  30. Thanks,
  31.  
  32. Dan Silva
  33. dan@lamar.colostate.edu
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