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Re: spam, probably not from this list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Dobbs)
Tue Nov 26 15:12:59 1996
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:19:51 EST."
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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 14:52:58 -0500
From: Justin Dobbs <jrd@Max.jrd.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 :)
I have gotten the emerald@earthstar.com mail too... and I'm on
redhat-list and linux-security.
Justin Dobbs
jrd@jrd.com
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