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From: martin@onyx.dirnet.com (Martin Spott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: for sale: *YOUR* email address.
Date: 20 Nov 1996 08:23:13 GMT
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Andrew Atrens (please@dont.spam.me) wrote:
: 
: Somehow, somewhere, someone has gotten hold of email
: address and is providing it, or selling it to 
: various spamming entities. [...]

I'm recognizing increasing amounts of unwanted junk mail in the past two
weeks. In one the sender mentioned the words "your newsposting", so I
believe they're just scanning newsgroups to get email adresses.

Martin.
-- 
EMail:            I prefer correspondence to: Martin.Spott@onyx.dirnet.com
  If necessary, business mail can be sent to: Martin.Spott@uni-duisburg.de
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