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Derek Olson
Tristan Woodworks
Your soul speaks Art.
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Highlands Ranch, Colorado
What the heck!!
This is getting ridiculous. Is someone really out to sign up ruby-talk in
every possible spam list?
Confirmation for ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
Thank you for your interest in my work. After you complete the
verification below you will be added to my list to receive updates
whenever a piece is completed.If you didn’t sign up, perhaps a friend added you.
Reply to this email and type ‘xxxxxxxx’ in the body and you will be
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added. Do nothing and you will be forgotten.
Derek Olson
Tristan Woodworks
Your soul speaks Art.
http://www.SmileAtYou.com
Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Daniel Carrera | OpenPGP fingerprint:
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On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 10:25:33AM +0900, TristanWW@SmileAtYou.com wrote:
What the heck!!
This is getting ridiculous. Is someone really out to sign up ruby-talk in
every possible spam list?
I shouldn’t think so. Spammers get addresses from webcrawlers. No attempt is
made to hide our list name, so in it goes.
If you didn’t sign up, perhaps a friend added you.
That’s a standard fraudulent statement; it sounds better than “we got your
E-mail address from a bulk E-mail CD”
Regards,
Brian.
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 10:29:03AM +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:
Brian Candler B.Candler@pobox.com writes:
That’s a standard fraudulent statement; it sounds better than “we got your
E-mail address from a bulk E-mail CD”
Spammers don’t use confirmation emails, though; they just spam. This
looks like a legit reply from a fraudlent submission.
-=Eric
–
Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million
typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare.
– Blair Houghton.
I can only imagine that you don’t get a lot of spam then 
I have many examples of spams which have the appearance of confirmation
mails. I think it’s an attempt to disguise that it’s spam, particularly in
response to abuse reports, and/or comes from a misguided idea of what an
“opt-in mailing list” means (i.e. ISP says to spammer: you can only use
opt-in lists. Spammer decides that means it’s OK to send an opt-in
confirmation message to everyone on his spam list)
I have even more which actually have the gall to say “this is not spam” 
Regards,
Brian.
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:53:12AM +0900, Eric Schwartz wrote:
Brian Candler B.Candler@pobox.com writes:
That’s a standard fraudulent statement; it sounds better than “we got your
E-mail address from a bulk E-mail CD”Spammers don’t use confirmation emails, though; they just spam. This
looks like a legit reply from a fraudlent submission.
Brian Candler B.Candler@pobox.com writes:
I can only imagine that you don’t get a lot of spam then
Only a couple hundred a day; I might actually see one or two of them
that slipped past my filters. Nothing compared to my friend who runs
a local consulting firm; she gets a thousand or so a day.
I have many examples of spams which have the appearance of confirmation
mails.
Okay then; I haven’t seen those, but I’ll take your word for it.
I have even more which actually have the gall to say “this is not
spam”
Psht; that’s older than the hills.
-=Eric
–
Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million
typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare.
– Blair Houghton.
Saluton!
I have even more which actually have the gall to say “this is not
spam”
I delete all messages containing that formulation because it means:
This actually IS spam.
Gis,
Josef ‘Jupp’ Schugt
–
N’attribuez jamais à la malice ce que l’incompétence explique !
– Napoléon