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Spammer on the list



On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 17:05, John Abreau wrote:
> I checked out that spam message from info at b29.biz, and it turns out 
> this spammer subscribed to the list before sending his garbage. 
> 
> I've unsubscribed him, but I imagine that won't help much. In order 
> to subscribe, he would have had to receive and reply to the message 
> with the subscription confirmation info, and if spammers are starting 
> to do that, I don't see how we can distinguish in advance which 
> subscribers are spammers and which are legitimate. 

John,

As it happens, I know someone who's a charter member of the lumber
cartel (TINLC).

I sent this to him and I'm confident he'll have fun with it. 

Bill





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