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Subject: 
WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
Date: 
Thu, 4 May 2000 21:50:19 GMT
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Hey all,

I just got spammed from Helge Viker; he's trying to pawn Lego sets onto me.  I
have never had business with him before.  In his e-mail, he says,

"This mail is going out to all I have had contact with over the past half
year.  Many of you have bought from me already, but some mail addresses has
sneaked into my lego mail account, through mails from others.  I intend to
send out a mail like this monthly or bimonthly. So, if do not want to get
this kind of mail from me, just let me know, and I will remove you from my
mailing list immediately."

So I suppose that my e-mail address *SNEAKED* into his "mail account".  Yes,
that's right, my e-mail address is intelligent, prehensile, and has a mood of
its own.  And I have to ask him to remove my name from his list.

Furthermore, he's doing said business through a HOTMAIL account.  That scores
points.  He strikes me as not too bright and particularly rude, and he's going
into my killfile.

Helge, get a clue.  Jeez.

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
I think the mistake a lot of us make
  is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend.



Message has 6 Replies:
  Re: WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
 
(...) Same here. (...) Indeed. And the recipient list is not displayed, right? (...) It may have been unwanted but I don't think it's rude. He says he's started a small business to sell Lego. Let him, I for one couldn't care less he sent me such a (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
  Re: WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
 
(...) Well I'm not one for me too posts but ME TOO. I got this E-mail to and it is fairly obvious you more than likely got the E-mails from either LUGNET (Most Likely) or Ebay. Seeing I don't use RTL he would not have seen my E-mail their and while (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
  Re: WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
 
(...) He's not a rude guy. I have bought some Lego from him in the past and the deal went very well. He's giving a real offer and I'm keeping his mail in case there's something I want. If you don't trust his offer and are not interested, then (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
  Re: WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
 
He isn't the only person doing this. I know of at least 2 others who have done the same thing. Paul Sinasohn (25 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
  Re: WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
 
Hi all, A message from the offender... I am truly sorry if I have caused any inconvenience for anybody, or offended anyone. This was the first time a sent out a mail to multiple persons like this, and I now realise that it was not a very good idea. (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
  No more spam from Helge Viker
 
(...) I have spoken with Helge in several e-mails since this happened, and he seems very contrite about the whole ordeal. With that, I'd like to remove my complaint against him and apologize for what I said about him and his business practices. (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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