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Terence Timburwa [invitation at ASPAMMERNETWORK.invalid]


Wed, 4 Jun 2008 10:12:08 +0100

Terence Timburwa has added you as a friend on [a spammer network]

[[[ Rest of the message with all the spammy splendor of bogus claims of "you have 6 messages" and "click here to remove" "click here for this" "click here for that" removed. -- Kat ]]]


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René Pfeiffer [lynx at luchs.at]


Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:02:18 +0200

On Jun 04, 2008 at 1012 +0100, Terence Timburwa appeared and said:

> Terence Timburwa has added you as a friend on $$$$.
> [...]

That's perfect for getting more volunteers! "Just join TAG and you get lots of friends." I didn't know that spammers were into positive thinking and motto creation.

SCNR, René.


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Rick Moen [rick at linuxmafia.com]


Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:26:46 -0700

Quoting René Pfeiffer (lynx@luchs.at):

> That's perfect for getting more volunteers! "Just join TAG and you get
> lots of friends." I didn't know that spammers were into positive
> thinking and motto creation.

Well, that social network got blackholed at my MTA about a minute after we received the "friend notice", so cherish the friendship, since that variety won't recur here.. (Ben, if we publish this thread, I'd suggest blanking out the name of the outfit, so we don't give them free publicity.)

[[[ My thoughts exactly, Rick. Done. -- Kat ]]]


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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxmafia.com]


Thu, 5 Jun 2008 08:55:09 -0400

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:26:46PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:

> Quoting René Pfeiffer (lynx@luchs.at):
> 
> > That's perfect for getting more volunteers! "Just join TAG and you get
> > lots of friends." I didn't know that spammers were into positive
> > thinking and motto creation.
> 
> Well, that social network got blackholed at my MTA about a minute after
> we received the "friend notice", so cherish the friendship, since that
> variety won't recur here..  (Ben, if we publish this thread, I'd suggest
> blanking out the name of the outfit, so we don't give them free
> publicity.)

That's our usual policy - capably implemented by our Mailbag Editor. Just one of those bits where procesing can't be automated...

-- 
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * https://LinuxGazette.NET *


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