Linux Shoe Spam

[David Kramer]

On Saturday 12 July 2003 04:48 pm, Gregory Boyce wrote:
> Has anyone else gotten spam mail for linux shoes?  This company is
> apparently selling sneakers and boots covered in Tux.  The thing that
> really got to me was this paragraph in the spam:
> 
> Sending "Spam" to Linux-users.
> How dumb can these guys be you must be thinking? This is like teaching
> Bill Gates the word "open source" or like having sex with Mrs. Tyson.
> So, before you bomb the hell out of us or instantly block all of our IP
> addresses, please do listen up. We're not as stupid as you might think.
> We, like you, are proud Linuxers ourselves, so how could we be? We got
> your address searching on linux sites and we promise we will only use it
> once. What do you say? Deal?
> 
> Almost amusing enough to make me want to make an exception for my "don't
> buy from spam mail" policy.  Almost.

You, I got it,  Humorous vendors get far with me, but not in this case.  

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