AthlonRob wrote:

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On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:56:50 -0700, Dave Trapnell 
<dtresearch@earthlink.net> wrote:

What's with this "Return-Path:" field? Are those "real"
email addresses? 

[snip]

The IP addresses are definitely real.  It is 
complicated to send an email without your IP 
address appearing somewhere on it.

As I understand it, they (or would that be They?) use 
an open proxy to relay the SPAM and/or Virus/Worm eMail.  

About the only thing I can think to do to verify the 
legitimacy of that Return-Path header would be to set 
up a perl script to try and match up IP addresses with 
the domain in the Return-Path header... but I don't 
play Perl very much, so wouldn't want to undertake 
something like that just now.  :-)

Or use SamSpade.org to check one or 2 eMails.  

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Rob     
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