[PeterWhittaker]

I think the correct way to phrase this would be "note the name in the 'From:' header..."

USENET and SMTP are both trivial to spoof (or were, "back in the day"). For example, alt.hackers had a bar for participation, but one set quite low: One merely had to figure out to participate in a moderated group that had no moderators.

(Pre-1993 USENET is pretty much the only thing I am nostalgic for. 2014 is great and while (2014++) {} looks even better, but when the Internet was our private playground, ah, the days, the times....)

[troymc]

Fair enough. In this case, there's ample reason to believe the email sender wasn't spoofed.