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  "Greetings from SoundStone": SPAM warning for members of the Legomaniac's Webring
 
All, I have just received a spam from "SoundStone" after they harvested my e-mail address from my Web page. The subject line read "Greeting from SoundStone". The second paragraph of the message reads: "I recently visited Jeremy's Lego Page while (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: "Greetings from SoundStone": SPAM warning for members of the Legomaniac's Webring
 
(...) I was spammed too. And couldn't resist to a grunty reply. Stupid me. Eric (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: "Greetings from SoundStone": SPAM warning for members of the Legomaniac's Webring
 
(...) I received and deleted that spam also. What happens if you reply? (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: "Greetings from SoundStone": SPAM warning for members of the Legomaniac's Webring
 
(...) By replying, you tell them that you have a live e-mail address, at which point they put it into their "known live" list, either for further use or for resale to other spammers (1). Either way, you'd be in for a helluva lot more garbage. Moving (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: "Greetings from SoundStone": SPAM warning for members of the Legomaniac's Webring
 
(...) Jeremy, would you please forward me the email message, I did not recieve the spam. I should take action and at least send out a mailing to members, if not try to track these guys down. That is a CLEAR abuse of the Webring -- I don't know how (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: "Greetings from SoundStone": SPAM warning for members of the Legomaniac's Webring
 
(...) Agreed. Following my .sig is the full message, including headers. Cheers, - jsproat obconspiracy: The Europe Symphony conspires with the Democratic Party, to unpave America, in order to undermine Denny's Restaurant. -- Return-Path: (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: "Greetings from SoundStone": SPAM warning for members of the Legomaniac's Webring
 
Op een zekere dag, te weten Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:37:01 GMT, klom Paul Foster <pfoster@execpc.com> in het toetsenbord en schreef ons: (...) They will know that this particular email-address is valid, and that it is actually read by you..... Ardjan (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)

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