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From: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: ATTMAIL Access?
Message-ID: <telecom-v09i0520m02@vector.dallas.tx.us>
Date: 18 Nov 89 18:32:06 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 520, message 2 of 12

Last January or thereabouts I constructed and sent off via the Internet
an email message with the headers:

 To: dispatcher@attmail.att.com
 Default-Options: /receipt
 Paper-To: Stephen P. Dyer
	<address lines>

Needless to say, it worked!  I received a confirmation receipt in
return mail via the Internet, and several days later I received a copy
of the letter in my mailbox.  I immediately sent mail to
postmaster@attmail warning them of the loophole, which now appears to
be closed.


Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu


[Moderator's Note: Not only that, but some people were sending mail to
user !telex at ATTMAIL, and sending telex messages everywhere with the
bill going to no one in particular, and eventually being written off
by ATTMAIL. I mentioned this flaw to them myself. The delivered telex
messages contained curious remarks as to their origin.  PT]