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At 02:53 AM 3/10/2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:

>That's interesting, as it implies that there are hundreds of thousands
>of federal criminals (eg, a big % of usenet posters and hotmail/yahoo
>users) running free.

An RFC 822 message ID header isn't a "claim of identity." After all,
it doesn't even contain a user name, just a "domain part" (something
that meets the *syntax requirements* of a domain name). Which "localhost" 
certainly does.

--Brett


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