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Re: spam, probably not from this list

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bomber)
Wed Nov 27 00:43:44 1996

Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 21:40:34 -0800 (PST)
From: bomber@globalpac.com (bomber)
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <329A7DAB.F08@cloud9.net>
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> I'm on this one list, and I don't post anywhere else.  emerald got our
> addies from here.  If anyone writes a short script that will hurry off a
> few hundred thousand email messages to spammers like that I for one will
> run it, I think I got a few messages from emerald so maybe I'll run it a
> few times (maybe I'll put it in my crontab for 3am for a few weeks :)
> Craig

I would imagine that you could send them a few thousand blank e-mails by
creating in a file the commands

mail spammer@somewhere.com
foobar

where 'foobar' is the name of the file you just created...setting up an
infinite loop... :) :) :) :)

just a thought
			bomber


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