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- Rule 12
- GTP_Famine
First, some background.
There is some form of virus/worm currently doing the rounds. It's characterised by a 24-34k attachment. I get roughly 10-15 copies a day in my Yahoo! inbox and almost all are deleted on sight. If any come bearing an e-mail domain I've dealt with in the past - such as one I got from a biochemical company the other day - I'll e-mail the company informing them that they MAY have the virus. I even got one the other day from myself - the perpetrator was obviously ghosting my e-mail address.
So let's bear this in mind as we scroll forward to the present day. I get this e-mail in my inbox, titled "Re: question" - which I'll usually read as my site generates a steady stream of e-mails. Domains have been screened to protect the ignorant:
" --- Rich Unger <richunger@soontobebombardedwithspam.com>
wrote: > ---------- Original Message
> ----------------------------------
> From: famine01@yahoo.com
> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 14:03:04 -0600
>
> already?
>
> why do you send out a virus, don't ever contact my
> site again I have sent your email to the FBI have
fun "
A little digging shows that he "runs" a website devoted to America's nightclub scene, and his forum has been active for all of about 2 days (or he's really unpopular).
I sent this as a reply:
"That was good of you. At least the FBI check the headers of e-mails, which you clearly don't.
Yahoo! and other e-mail providers seem to be having trouble recently with people ghosting their user's e-mail addresses - I even received an e-mail purporting to be from myself... They tend to have 24-34k attachments, which I delete on sight.
I have never heard of you or your site. I have an absolute zero interest in night clubs. If you wish to send beligerent e-mails, please check your facts first - headers are so terribly useful. I wish you and your site/business well, but I suspect with reactionaries such as you representing it, it won't.
As a further aside, even if I WERE the originator of that e-mail/virus, which I wasn't, I am outside the FBI's jurisdiction as I am not a US citizen. Which would make my interest in an American night club site even less than it already wasn't.
As for contacting your site again, I didn't in the first place as you probably have gathered by now, so "again" is a moot point.
Enjoy life - but research it first, for pity's sakes.
Famine"
I thought I was rather restrained.
I'm waiting for a response - if none is forthcoming, I won't be mean and evil. If you want to go visit his forum, PM me for the URL - makes you yearn for the grammar skills of darklegion_ca to return, it really does.
There is some form of virus/worm currently doing the rounds. It's characterised by a 24-34k attachment. I get roughly 10-15 copies a day in my Yahoo! inbox and almost all are deleted on sight. If any come bearing an e-mail domain I've dealt with in the past - such as one I got from a biochemical company the other day - I'll e-mail the company informing them that they MAY have the virus. I even got one the other day from myself - the perpetrator was obviously ghosting my e-mail address.
So let's bear this in mind as we scroll forward to the present day. I get this e-mail in my inbox, titled "Re: question" - which I'll usually read as my site generates a steady stream of e-mails. Domains have been screened to protect the ignorant:
" --- Rich Unger <richunger@soontobebombardedwithspam.com>
wrote: > ---------- Original Message
> ----------------------------------
> From: famine01@yahoo.com
> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 14:03:04 -0600
>
> already?
>
> why do you send out a virus, don't ever contact my
> site again I have sent your email to the FBI have
fun "
A little digging shows that he "runs" a website devoted to America's nightclub scene, and his forum has been active for all of about 2 days (or he's really unpopular).
I sent this as a reply:
"That was good of you. At least the FBI check the headers of e-mails, which you clearly don't.
Yahoo! and other e-mail providers seem to be having trouble recently with people ghosting their user's e-mail addresses - I even received an e-mail purporting to be from myself... They tend to have 24-34k attachments, which I delete on sight.
I have never heard of you or your site. I have an absolute zero interest in night clubs. If you wish to send beligerent e-mails, please check your facts first - headers are so terribly useful. I wish you and your site/business well, but I suspect with reactionaries such as you representing it, it won't.
As a further aside, even if I WERE the originator of that e-mail/virus, which I wasn't, I am outside the FBI's jurisdiction as I am not a US citizen. Which would make my interest in an American night club site even less than it already wasn't.
As for contacting your site again, I didn't in the first place as you probably have gathered by now, so "again" is a moot point.
Enjoy life - but research it first, for pity's sakes.
Famine"
I thought I was rather restrained.
I'm waiting for a response - if none is forthcoming, I won't be mean and evil. If you want to go visit his forum, PM me for the URL - makes you yearn for the grammar skills of darklegion_ca to return, it really does.
