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Re: spam, probably not from this list

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill D)
Mon Nov 25 23:58:42 1996

From: Bill D <billd@voicenet.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:35:26 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199611260342.TAA01028@jklaren.qualcomm.com> from "Jon Klaren" at Nov 25, 96 07:42:41 pm
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Jon Klaren wrote:

> I now realize a far more likely possibility... the linux-kernel mailing
> list, which has a mail2news gateway to linux.dev.kernel.  

I've never posted to the linux-kernel list though.  (And I think I even
subscribe to it from a different address.)

> 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?

Meta-spam.

Or recursive spam.

Bill

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