contact me. The funny thing is why. They get a spam telling them they won. They
then do a Google search on the company mentioned in the spam. They find an old
archived spam from one of the lists (the old lists would archive before spam
catching) and assume that the spam was from HoF. Then they'd contact me.
It's a twisted amalgam of total stupidity with internet savvy. Weird.
> You should track how many people call (yeah like you have the time for one
> more thing). But it would be interesting to know how many people are taking
> that stuff seriously.
>
> Then again maybe not so interesting.
>
> --------------
> Ian Skinner
> Web Programmer
> BloodSource
> www.BloodSource.org
> Sacramento, CA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 3:57 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: 100,000 spam
>
>
> My spam Db which has only been recording as of 5/7/2003 and is only
> recording
> spam that comes to the HoF box (lists, Judith, myself or black hole) has
> officially cracked the 100,000 barrier. The official count is now 100,029.
> And because the entire DB is accessible from the HoF spam page and
> searchable
> through Google, I can get even more people calling me asking about their
> prize.
> Really, they do.
>
> --
> Michael Dinowitz
> Finding technical solutions to the problems you didn't know you had yet
> _____
>
>
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