Re: New Spam Trick

[Betty Guthrie <bguthrie -at- PROMUS -dot- COM>]

There's another new spam trick I've recently fallen for -- but only
once!  The subject line was "I found you!"

Naturally, I thought it was some long-lost friend who'd been looking for
me online.  Nope.  Pure, undiluted spam.

Betty Champagne Guthrie

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>From:  Joe Miller[SMTP:joemiller -at- CANBERRA -dot- COM]
>Sent:  Wednesday, November 12, 1997 1:36 PM
>To:    TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject:       New Spam Trick
>
>I start a message session by going through all listserv
>messages, deleting those I don't want to read.  This,
>obviously, includes messages headed "Make $10,000,000
>in just 2.65 seconds with my amazing...".   But just now, I
>received a message with no subject and naturally, I started
>to read it.  Yech!  Spam!
>
>The obvious defense is to dump messages with no subject.
>Not a problem until I realized that some of us occasionally
>forget to include a subject.  Please help me, and all of us,
>by remembering to include a subject so I'll have a chance
>to read your message.
>
>--Joe
>joemiller -at- canberra -dot- com
>
>Posts: mailto:techwr-l -at- listserv -dot- okstate -dot- edu
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>Subjects: JOB:, QUESTION:, SUMMARY:, ANNOUNCE:, or none of these.
>
>
>

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