[Vision2020] President White's Letter SupportingGeocentricism is aHoax

[lfalen]

There is one difference between the two emails. Not everyone who received the bogus email received the original one.
-----Original message-----
From: "Tom Hansen" thansen at moscow.com
Date: Fri,  7 Oct 2005 05:58:16 -0700
To: "'Chasuk'" chasuk at gmail.com
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] President White's Letter SupportingGeocentricism is aHoax

> Chasuk -
> 
> I have a pristine copy of the subject email on my computer at work.  The
> return email address of that email is clearly president at uidaho.edu, the
> email address for the Office of the President, University of Idaho.
> 
> Perhaps, as you say, somebody made the letter to falsely appear as if it had
> originated from the Office of the President of UI (without actually hacking
> into a UI email server).  I am very familiar with several ways in which this
> can be accomplished.
> 
> Question:  The "mail group" to which the email was sent includes all staff
> and faculty at UI.  This "mail group", I have been told, is identical to the
> mail group that the REAL Office of the President uses.  Enlighten us Chasuk.
> How could that have happened without hacking into the server?
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> PS - Did you get the CDs I sent you?
> 
> "If not us, who?
> If not now, when?"
> 
> - Unknown
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chasuk [mailto:chasuk at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 9:57 PM
> To: Tom Hansen
> Cc: lfalen; heirdoug at netscape.net; ngier at uidaho.edu; vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] President White's Letter SupportingGeocentricism
> is aHoax
> 
> On 10/6/05, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> > Greetings Visionaires -
> 
> > These are the facts.  Somebody had actively hacked into a UI e-mail
> server.
> > That person further created an e-mail from the email account of the Office
> > of the UI President.  The e-mail was sent to all staff and faculty of the
> > University of Idaho.
> 
> Is this a fact?  I haven't seen the original message with the headers
> intact, but it isn't terribly difficult to make a letter appear as if
> has come from one source when it has come from another, without any
> hacking involved.  Most of us have probably gotten spam that is
> ostensibly from one individual and is in actuality from another.  I
> haven't taken the time to learn such chicanery myself, but I am
> assured by knowledgeable people that a relatively clever teenager can
> master it quickly enough; probably with tutorials obtained via a
> Google search.
> 
> If this hacking did occur, then I hope that the perpetrators are
> identified and prosecuted.  If it didn't, well, then, the message was
> FUNNY, and too obvious of a hoax to have merited a single hackle being
> raised.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chas
> 
> 
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