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Subject: 
Well this gives a new meaning to Spam...
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:27:54 GMT
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I've just had a spam mail - from a company that sends out
spam mail -  asking me if I want any mailings sent out!

It appears that for the modest sum of $750 I can have half a million
email addresses bombarded.

So come on guys - ideas - what - if anything -
should I do to let this company know
what I think of them? For obvious reasons I don't particularly
feel like replying by email to this kind of company :) It does give
a couple of US phone numbers but angry international
phone calls are expensive.

Simon
http://www.SimonRobinson.com

----- Original Message -----
From: <massanowsmint@pobox.net>
To: <simon@simonrobinson.com>
Sent: 27 September 1999 04:29
Subject: Instant results


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> 
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Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Well this gives a new meaning to Spam...
 
(...) That was your first one? Lucky! (...) THIS is the richest part. People are "TIRED" of discreet banners that take up a corner of a page, but ALL CAPS ads shoved into their mailboxes are OK??? Huh? This probably doesn't belong here but there (...) (27 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Well this gives a new meaning to Spam...
 
I would be willing to spend upwards of $10 in stamps to send them a bunch of spam junk snail mail, since they were kind enough to give an actual street address! Anybody got any good ideas on a letter/sales pitch we could mail? I was thinking (...) (27 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Well this gives a new meaning to Spam...
 
(...) Hrmmm.... this is nothing new. And ... not really related to Lego, right? I'd change the follow-ups but there is no lugnet.off-topic.was...oftimejunk yet. :) (27 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)

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