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Re: SPAM
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Date: 
Wed, 9 Feb 2000 18:13:21 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, John Neal writes:


Richard Franks wrote:

In lugnet.off-topic.fun, John Neal writes:
Yes, but I attribute it to my activity on eBay, not LUGNET.

Look at this lame attempt:
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Subject: Re:%20The%20sunshine%20house%203119
    Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:14:13 EST
   From: Nsname1962@aol.com
        To: johnneal@uswest.net

everyone is talking about LS@H.  Please tell me how I can order from them?

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Gee, I think I'll be a nice guy and email him back.....not.

Why not? Because it's unsolicited or because nsname1962 is from aol?

Yes.

??

I don't see how that could be spam or even a spam harvest attempt. Call me
gullible I guess, but it just strikes me as someone who's relatively clueless
at the moment, perhaps young. I get notes, from people I am convinced are
youngsters, asking the most basic questions, or asking if I want to sell stuff
for ridiculously low prices, more than once a week.

I usually try to reply.

Please elaborate on why this note is a spam note and not just from a newbie



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(...) I see that one the same way. I get a lot of those too. I try to reply to the honest clueless questions, even though I'm easily annoyed by them. What's more annoying is when someone sends some 'official communique of the _____ empire' asking (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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(...) Yes. :John (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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