Re: really good deals...

2004-06-06 Thread Jon Murphy
Stewart, That is an early warning sign, the cc's being in alphabetical order. It usually means someone has hacked a list, be it a list like ours, or even the list of an ISP. They limit the length of the list to get by volume filters. You may notice that sometimes the alphas are all the same

really good deals...

2004-06-04 Thread bill
i'm starting to get e-mails of the type that want me to supply a bank account number in order to rip-off some african bank or ministry or other. my wife gets them all the time (one from someone who called himself prince doo-doo) but up until a month or so ago i can't remember receiving even

Re: really good deals...

2004-06-04 Thread Taco Walstra
On Friday 04 June 2004 13:47, bill wrote: I think the main reason is the storage of all mailings in a public accessible archive on the dartmouth server containing all e-mail addresses in the messages to this list. Such archives are scanned by robots and the result sold to spammers. It's not the

Re: really good deals...

2004-06-04 Thread corun
Bill wrote: i'm starting to get e-mails of the type that want me to supply a bank account number in order to rip-off some african bank or ministry or other. my wife gets them all the time (one from someone who called himself prince doo-doo) but up until a month or so ago i can't

Re: really good deals...

2004-06-04 Thread corun
Bill wrote: i'm starting to get e-mails of the type that want me to supply a bank account number in order to rip-off some african bank or ministry or other. my wife gets them all the time (one from someone who called himself prince doo-doo) but up until a month or so ago i can't

really good deals...

2004-06-04 Thread Stewart McCoy
: Friday, June 04, 2004 12:47 PM Subject: really good deals... i'm starting to get e-mails of the type that want me to supply a bank account number in order to rip-off some african bank or ministry or other. my wife gets them all the time (one from someone who called himself prince doo-doo