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Re: spam, probably not from this list

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Skull)
Mon Nov 25 23:40:47 1996

Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:19:51 -0500
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
From: Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
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>I now realize a far more likely possibility... the linux-kernel mailing
>list, which has a mail2news gateway to linux.dev.kernel.  I had
>forgotten about the news gateway, and now realize that it is far more
>likely that spammers sucked my name from posts to that list, than
>searching Red Hat's mail-list archives on www.redhat.com.
>
>In a rather unusual twist, the last email spam I received from the
>elusive "emerald@earthstar.com" was advertising software to assist in
>email spamming.  So is that spam^2?
hmm, I got a message from that too, and I'm on redhat-list and
linux-security...
it has to be some kind of mail2news gateway issue. Since I've gotten more
junkmail since joining this list. Not that I can't delete it easy enough :)

Darron


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