Do some Web clients fill a Web page's author as the sender?

I Find Karma (adam@cs.caltech.edu)
Sat, 13 Jun 1998 22:53:37 -0700


Hi Chris,

At first glance from the bounced email I got below, it looks like
someone got a copy of Mozilla 2.02 and spoofed by identity, because I
did not send the email that bounced back to me just now. Furthermore, I
do not understand why there's only one "Received" header (so it was
directly received through intergate), why it was sent to droopy from
intergate before it bounced, why it actually bounced, and what
massive-gas@juno.com is.

The file does exist on my Web space at

http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/,disclaimer

so maybe someone was trying to forward it to a mailing list and Mozilla
2.02Gold just automatically filled my name in as the author since the
forwarder was anonymous as far as the Web client was concerned.

Do you think I should be concerned?

Adam

> From MAILER-DAEMON@cs.caltech.edu Fri Jun 12 21:58:00 1998
> Subject: Returned mail: Cannot send message for 3 days
> To: adam@cs.caltech.edu
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 421 droopy.colorado.edu: Connection refused by droopy.colorado.edu
>
> ----- Unsent message follows -----
> Received: from cs.caltech.edu (pm7s8.intergate.bc.ca) by csvax.cs.caltech.edu (4.1/1.34.1)
> id AA12603; Tue, 9 Jun 98 21:13:00 PDT
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> X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02Gold (Win95; I)
> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 21:12:56 E
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> From: "Adam Rifkin" <adam@cs.caltech.edu>
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