[Test-Equipment] OT Semi big spambots

[Ron]

From: DaveC <davec2468 at aim.com>


> I doubt that more than a small percentage of spam is from list harvesting.

Actually, news and chat groups are a known source of spamming 
targets.

In this case... Last month, Mr.Peter Manfre <pmanfre at gmail.com> 
unabashedly plugged a new newsgroup. Mr. Manfre later waved under 
our collective nose a list of supposedly interesting things for sale on 
that same newsgroup. He conveniently neglected to mention that one 
must join in order to view said list. 

Mr. Manfre's motives may be pure as the untrodden snow, yet I find 
his methods less than savory -- to be blunt, they smack of spamming --
so I declined. I am not surprised other list menbers declined as well.

Respectfully, 

-- Ron





> With respect,
> Dave
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