I tried to find your original post on the Archive to clarify that.
I forgot it wasn't an Outlook Express user group!
Nick Landau
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From: "Roland Perry" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Fw: [data-protection] Posts out of Sync...
> In message <017a01c708e6$01a6d700$26f38d56@Nick>, at 18:43:55 on Wed, 15
> Nov 2006, Nick Landau <[log in to unmask]> writes
>>I thought that it was you who gave this or similar advice not so long ago,
>>when I made a similar enquiry.
>
> It was.
>
>>Subsequently someone else complained about the technical speak.
>
> Hmm. Don't want to stray too far off topic and be guilty of running a "how
> to read your email" tutorial, but as I said before: emails are a
> potentially disclosable form of data, so it's perhaps a good idea if folks
> understand what data is in an email (most people don't see all of it, nor
> I suspect do they disclose the hidden parts)!
>
> Briefly:
>
> An email consists of "headers" and "body" (the message).
>
> In an attempt to be kind to their users, many email programmes only show a
> bare minimum of the header information - an extract from it. Such
> abbreviated details are commonly: the date/time sent (and if you are lucky
> the timezone), the purported sender, the recipient and the Subject.
>
> But there are many other things in the header, which include (in the
> current context) a set of entries whereby the email is "postmarked" by
> each of the mail [relay] machines through which it passes.
>
> To interpret this information the user must first expose it to view
> (different email software has different schemes for doing this - read the
> manual or ask a handy expert), and secondly identify and read the relevant
> lines.
>
> The ones which are "postmarks" [Received: headers] are added at the top
> each time the email is passed on, so are in 'reverse' order (most recent
> at the top). Each such header line is typically three screen lines long
> and includes the name and address of the mail relay machines concerned,
> and the date and time the hand-over occurred.
>
> It is not unreasonable to expect that most of these hand-overs should
> normally happen within a few dozen seconds of one another (although the
> clocks on the various machines may not be exactly correct). If it's more
> than (say) ten minutes, then there are probably "leaves on the line".
> --
> Roland Perry
>
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