Subject: more info on spamming

From: "MS NMBR 3" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 20:46:20 -0600

Hello.  My name is Debra and I am doing a group project for Columbia
College located in Freeport Illinois.  My groups topic is privacy on the
Internet and we have narrowed it down to cookies and spamming.  My area of
discussion is what is spamming, statistics, history, etc.  If you could
mail me with and Information I would greatly appreciate it.  My project is
due on Monday.  I am sorry about the short notice but there are just so
many web sites about spamming that I just got to yours.  If you could help
us we would appreciated....sincerely...
MIS group from Illinois

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 10:58:57 +0800 (GMT)

> us we would appreciated....sincerely...

You have managed to email to the [email-masked] mailing list
which is devoted to the discussion of the email user agent known as pine.

While pine and spam are both 4 letter words....they are not the same.
The pine list is, at times, a target for spamming.  But we don't talk
about it.

Sorry to hear that Monday is the due date. 

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Edward M. Greshko                  Technical Manager, Electronic Commerce
                                   Control Data Asia/Pacific Region
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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 06 Nov 1997 12:03:47 +0100

>> "EMG" == Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]> writes:

EMG> On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, MS NMBR 3 wrote:
[cookies and spamming]

EMG> While pine and spam are both 4 letter words....they are not the
EMG> same.  The pine list is, at times, a target for spamming.  But we
EMG> don't talk about it.

Okay, the starting point is Nancy "Windows CE" McGough's filtering FAQ:

ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/filtering-faq
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/
       hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/filtering-faq/faq.html
ftp://ftp.halcyon.com/pub/ii/internet/filtering\mail\faq.txt

What you're probably looking for is Gandalf's spam FAQ. It's mentioned 
in that document.

Happy hunting,
Robin

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Robin S. Socha M.A.
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good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix.
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