[charles_f]

I sent many an email from [e-mail], the veneer of the terminal helping, my friends were quite impressed by how good a hacker I was. Good olde days when many DKIM/SPF weren't a thing yet and SMTP servers weren't even authenticated.

[krzyk]

It was quite fun.

But at my first work (begining of 2000s) there was one person that made a fun email, using From of head of company (or was it head of that particular division) to his coworker with congratulations for pay increase and promotion. It would be all great, but that coworker didn't catch the joke and replied to it (person in the From wasn't amused). Author of the joke was fired (which is not easy thing to do in Europe), some people don't catch jokes.

[TylerE]

Screwing with someones career isn't a joke. Shitcan-ee fully deserved it.

[dhosek]

When I was working at the computing center at University of Illinois at Chicago in the 80s, we found a fairly simple route to spoofing emails from other users through batch jobs on the MVS side of our mainframe. It came crashing to a halt when someone sent a spoofed email from the director to one of the other employees saying that they were fired and to bring their keys to her office immediately. I think the person responsible nearly lost his job over that, but as I recall, the ability to do this was never closed.

[qingcharles]

I ran an EFnet server in the mid-90s and therefore could fake DNS entries for myself. I was often on IRC from "aliens.gov" which seemed funny at the time, but now that domain finally became an unfunny reality.

[cferry]

"Cher compatriote, voici, rédigé avec mes clavier et mulot, mon programme de l'an 2000 que j'ai après la dissolution..."