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Subject: Re: Clueless mail from atext.com (Architext)?
From: Brian Hartsfield <bh @ hq . stargame . org>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 17:37:51 -0400 (EDT)
To: "Michael C. Berch" <mcb @ postmodern . com>
Cc: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <9507310502.AA19642@postmodern.com>



On Sun, 30 Jul 1995, Michael C. Berch wrote:

> Has anyone else gotten a very strange spam-like mailing from "List Boy"
> (list@cochese.atext.com) with the subject, "Architext would like to
> index your mailing list", followed by a list of (in this case 100)
> apparently random list-owner or list-server addresses (none of which
> were lists I have anything to do with)?
> 
> No contact information, no explanation, nothing.  My reply is
> appended.  Has anybody heard of these people?  

Sounds to me like somebody was trying to set up an automated program to 
do spamming or get information to do spamming and instead of going 
through the list one entry at a time, it mailed the list of who he as 
going to hit to your list. :-)

Brian



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