Re: [Asrg] Weird spam

[Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com>]

> From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>

> ...
> At 8:54 PM -0400 6/25/03, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
> >I received a very strange spam message, quoted below. Does anyone 
> >know what these kind of messages accomplish?
>
> Same as hoaxes and graffiti.  The knowledge of knowing that your 
> message is being seen by thousands of people.  That one's been around 
> for a while.  ALong with the guy looking for a time machine and a few 
> others.

Some commentators in NANAE claim that this guy is the same as the
time machine guy and that he's seriously distrubed.  See
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22unlimited+memory+backup%22+group%3A*.email


> One more reason why the definition of "spam" should not include the 
> word "commercial".

Yes, but charity and political spam is more common and so better
examples outside the political and helping professions who, like
most people, insist "Spam is that which I don't do."


Vernon Schryver    vjs@rhyolite.com

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