>> >Anyone got an idea of how I can go about getting the email address from
>> >the below letter.  Not that I believe this person, but this type of mail
>> >is annoying.  I was able to get something off to the postmaster of this
>> >address, but not the email address because this person wrote in their
>> >shell account.
>>
>> You can't.  That's the point of the sender's using an anonymous remailer.
>> This, likewise, is a risk of being a list owner.  You can keep such things
>> from being posted to your mailing list by setting "SEND=PRIVATE" in the
>> list's header, but you can't stop people from sending them directly to you.
>
>Thnak you.  The delete key is mighty powerful in this case of the email
>in my box.  If this person is not the postmaster themselves at portal.com,
>I assume that their postmaster's can remove them.  Correct?
 
Nope.  Completely wrong.  Portal simply runs a machine which provides an
anonymous remailing service, which takes incoming email, revises the
headers to remove all indentifying information, and sends it on.  The
original sender could be _anyone_ posting from _anywhere_.  Portal's
postmaster is not the originator, nor can Portal's postmaster remove this
person.
 
>I know who this person is.  So that may help.
 
This message gives _absolutely_ _no_ _indication_ of who sent it.  That's
the whole point.  If you think you know who it is, you can complain to the
postmaster at _that_ person's site, but this message is not in any way
evidence that this person is responsible.  If _I_ were the postmaster there
and you asked me to deal with this person based on that message, I'd kindly
offer my regrets and decline to do so.
 
 
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