LAST EDITED ON Nov-03-03 AT 04:52 PM (EST)
 
One-eyed Jack,

There are many, many ways to spoof yourself (hide your identity) when sending email, logging onto a server, etc. I've not done this myself, never had a reason to, but there's a lot of information all around telling one how to do it.

Once upon a time, there even were people in Europe who set up anonymous servers to help others hide their identity. If you sent an email there, it would supposedly be resent without the original envelope --- as if it originated there, I believe. In this way, all that would show would be that server plus the others on the way to the final destination. No way to tell where the originals came from. I don't know if these servers still operate or not. There were lots of threats about serving search warrants to get the originals and so on. The server administrators started just deleting everything that came in as soon as it was resent, but still --- they could have had all their equipment seized once a week until they went broke.

Bascially, yes, this is easy to do and was common once upon a time.