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Re: [faq-maintainers] Political spam?

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From: David Harley (harley@icrf.icnet.uk)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 17:51:46 CST


>
> Am I the only one who received a two-thousand line plus political
> message?

"Help Clinton make peace...."? If so, no. (Me and a dozen or two
other Ds.....)

> I don't know how they got my address but I have a feeling
> it's from one of the mailing lists I'm on.

List harvesting is a grand old spammer tradition. If lots of
other people put their hands up, I guess this one. Possibly
among others.

> The copy I got was
> addressed to people beginning with "a". Our abuse guy and I am trying
> to find out where this is coming from. Thanks.

I didn't keep it. Wasn't it from a hotmail account?
>

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