OT gmail alert -- spam or real?

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On 05/06/2010 10:58 PM, jdow wrote:

> They should also show the IP address of the person posting the message.
> I've not looked at a gmail header in quite some time so I'm not sure if
> they adopted this practice or not. I figured it had stayed on campus.
> I expected to see it shuffled from computer to computer rather than
> being one hop as is shown.
> 
> {^_^}


   That is debatable and some say not in clear text. Google does not
show the originating IP in clear text - I cannot say if it is encoded in
some way in the message-id like some webmail clients do.

   If the mail is sent using smtp, then indeed the originating IP is
visible.

  gene