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Subject: 
Re: Sale announcements (Was Beware more SPAM...)
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.off-topic.fun
Followup-To: 
lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:03:30 GMT
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In lugnet.market.auction, Eric Joslin writes:

Before you ask, yes, there was a time when a major ISP payed me to determine
things like this.

c/payed/paid/ unless your investigations involved being lowered by rope
vertically downward over the edge of buildings or cliffs, and to peer into the
dens of spammers and see what they were up to (1). (2)

1 - Bond, *ERIC* Bond... and yes, he does want that martini, thankyouverymuch.

2 - and if that vision of Eric doesn't make you smile, you have no sense of
humor and need to lighten up(3).

3 - This discussion could stand a little levity anyway(4), Lighter loads mean
less rope fraying. And a frayed rope should make you afraid.

4 - or levitation if you'd rather

++Lar (another typo, another pounce. I'm a frayed I can't stop, I had this
pounce habit of mine walled off but it's going downhill now)



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  Re: Sale announcements (Was Beware more SPAM...)
 
(...) No, I did mean "paid". Ooops. Any hanging from ropes and peering into people's windows is strictly done on my own time. eric (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: Sale announcements (Was Beware more SPAM...)
 
(...) Thinking of hanging from ropes and looking into windows, several years ago, I observed that the window washers were using caving originated rapel gear to lower themselves down the wall to do the windows. (24 years ago, 27-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Re: Sale announcements (Was Beware more SPAM...)
 
(...) In my professional opinion, it is definitely Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE), which is definitely SPAM. Before you ask, yes, there was a time when a major ISP payed me to determine things like this. (...) Doesn't matter the source, the fact (...) (24 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.auction)

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