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Re: 15th Century French Castle for Sale (fwd)



Quoth Adam Morrison on Fri, Nov 26, 1999:
> This ``spam'' was sent to the mailing list on Sun, 21 Nov 199
> 16:20:37.  An apology explaining that the message was sent here
> by mistake followed 1:06 minutes later.

Yes.  Apology is not enough.

> The ``spam'' was sent using Mozilla, not the world's most
> popular bulk mail software.

Yes.  If you pay attention to headers of spam, you probably know
that some spam messages are sent by using standard UNIX or
Windows mailers and newsreaders.

> It was sent by a subscriber; in fact, a quick archive search
> shows that this subscriber has posted ~11 message to the mailing
> list in the last year.  (I.e. this is not a spammer who subscribed
> in order to bypass the posting restrictions.)

Yes.  Again, if you pay attention to headers of spam, you
probably know that some spam has perfectly valid sender
addresses.

> This sort of hysterical bullshit does not help the fight against
> spam.

My opinion differs here.  One of the reasons is that he probably
sent this message to other people, who did not want to receive
it.

> P.S.  Just in case this message is also deemed ``spam'', I'll
> note that I'm replying to a message you cc'd to the list.

You seem to be sarcastic for some reason.

Vadik.

-- 
Strange Fruit.  A brilliant way to describe
somebody hanging from a tree...
	-- Marcus Miller

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