[83096] in Cypherpunks
Re: Bizarre e-mail in the orphan mailbox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Mon Jul 14 11:55:04 1997
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 97 10:14:14 EDT
In-Reply-To: <19970714034743.24942.qmail@zipcon.net>
Reply-To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Mike Duvos <enoch@zipcon.net> writes:
>
> The Good Doctor writes:
>
> > What is this stuff: http://hotbox.danni.com
> > username: antonio
> > password: 9183tc
>
> > Why are they spamming me with their passwords?
>
> Apparently, they think you will give them a credit card number they can
> bill $9.95 a month to in perpetuity, just for the privelege of being able
> to click on some jpg files of chunky women with big hooters.
>
> Go figure.
But lots of these used to be available for free on alt.binaries.pictures.
erotica the last time I looked (which was admittedly many years ago).
Conspiracy theory: do you think the spammers are flooding the "free"
sources of good stuff (such as usenet) to eliminate the competition,
so people would have to pay them for same?
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