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Subject: 
Re: Spam alert!
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au
Date: 
Mon, 16 Oct 2000 02:03:31 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
The same thing happened to me, although I believe that the addresses were
harvested from brickbay [the "seller" had just signed up there on the 12th] as
one email address it was sent to [I got it at 2 email addresses] isn't used in
relation to lugnet, only brickbay, and another I [used to] use on lugnet
wasn't sent to [I think].

I sent him (guessing it's a guy) a "please don't spam me" email: in his
apologetic reply he said that he has addresses from lugnet, ebay and brickbay.
He claimed that he was sent an extra Tour de France set from Europe and is
trying to pass it on to an Australian collector. In his first email he had
said, "If you want 2 set, I may try to get from local shop". I don't know what
the whole story is, and I'm not really interested.

For me the basic message is that at least one person has compiled an AFOL
address list, probably with fields for location and interests. :-(

--DaveL



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  Re: Spam alert!
 
I've been spam, spam, spam sausages and spam sandwiched by it too. But I've never given my details to brickbay yet. So obviously this characters got contacts from elsewhere. I'm guessing they've used the membership list? on lugnet to pull out Aus (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)

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  Re: Spam alert!
 
G'day, The same thing happened to me, although I believe that the addresses were harvested from brickbay [the "seller" had just signed up there on the 12th] as one email address it was sent to [I got it at 2 email addresses] isn't used in relation (...) (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)

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