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On Tuesday 11 February 2003 10:28 am, dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 07:02:28AM -0800, Steve wrote: > > A supposedly very serious, affecting everybody, etc. problem that > > receives no media coverage outside of the email. Check. > > Actually, the Globe ran a story on this sometime in the last few > years... covering several email chain letters. > > > >>I was further informed that this scam has been originated from many > > >>local jails/prisons. I have also verified this information with UCB > > >>Telecom, Pacific Bell, MCI, Bell Atlantic, and GTE. > > > > Unverified appeal to authority. "I contacted them so you don't have to. > > Just believe what I say." Check. > > Better yet, to authorities who no longer exist. (MCI was eaten by > WorldCom, Bell Atlantic and GTE merged to Verizon.) > > > Chain letter request. Check. > > > > Does anybody know if someody has written a logic filter for email > > hoaxes? Would be interesting as they all seem to sound the same to me. > > Unfortunately, it would require the ability to parse English, a > strong-AI condition. Actually, yes. A friend of mine wrote one. http://crm114.sourceforge.net/ For the record, the condition outlined in the original spam was, in fact true a long time ago. There were phone systems that were suseptible to this problem, and an outside caller really could get an outside line to anywhere for the cost of a local call. I tried it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDD David Kramer david at thekramers.net http://thekramers.net DK KD DKK D "It's noble to be good. It's nobler to teach DK KD others to be good, and less trouble." DDDD Mark Twain
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