Re: UseNet Gateway One Way ok?

Ricky Beam (root@defiant.interpath.net)
Mon, 26 May 1997 03:42:38 -0400 (EDT)


Letting the chips far where they may, I quote david parsons:
>
> If it's a one-way feed, it could be set up to mangle headers so that
> only a human can figure them out. Rot13 the from: address, or put
> spaces in it, or anything along those lines.
>

Unlikely... unless a human is constantly mangling the headers in such a
way as to prevent any logical way to detect how it was manged, then a computer
could be programmed to de-mangle the headers. The only sure way is to remove
them entirely!

Basically, if yu have a program to mangle headers, then a program to de-mangle
them could be made.

--Ricky