Death Threat Woes

[Jim Jones]

To settle some of the ponderings concerning whether or not
net-based email can be traced to a machine, here's a copy of
a rocketmail email header:




Received: from web4.rocketmail.com ([205.180.57.78])
	by gw (GroupWise SMTP/MIME daemon 4.1 v3)
	; Thu, 30 Oct 97 11:02:11 INDIANA
Message-ID: <19971030155546.13824.rocketmail at web4.rocketmail.com>

                 Here's the culprit!
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VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
Received: from [147.226.94.73] by web4; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 07:55:46 PST
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 07:55:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Jim Jones <problem_solved at rocketmail.com>
Subject: Test of rocketmail headers
To: jjones2 at wp.bsu.edu
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii




Right next to Received: above you find the originating "from" machine IP address
from where it originated.  A simple InterNic lookup on the domain (147.226) part
of the IP address will produce the name and office number of the person to call
if you run into issues from traffic originating from that domain.  

Quite simple internet sleuthing.

I am sure that Hotmail and any others are the same way.

Jim Jones