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Re: WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
Date: 
Fri, 5 May 2000 00:47:42 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> 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.


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 I have participated in a Couple of Ebay auctions my visibility their
has been minimal.

Anyways I agree Jeremy,  Get a Clue.


Eric Kingsley



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
 
(...) It has to be from LUGNET. I haven't done anything on EBay, short of registering myself but not handing over a cerdit card # yet... The way I see it, there is no question whether he's actively harvesting addresses from *somewhere*, since I have (...) (26 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
  Re: WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
 
(...) Well-- an interesting note on this... I got email from him on my OTHER email account, NOT on the one I usually post to LUGNET from... In fact, I don't think the LUGNET system even 'knows' about that email address... It never went out on RTL (...) (26 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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  WARNING: spam from Helge Viker
 
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 (...) (26 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade) ! 

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