According to Kurt Wall: While burning my CPU.
> 
> Hi, linux-newbies!  I rceived the message below from the originator
> of the "hey jerkoff" chain of messages that beseiged us yesterday
> and last night.  Apparently, he was sending a message from himself
> to a friend and (duh) something went very wrong.  I sent a complaint
> late last night to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about it.  See, complaining
> to the postmaster *does* work, sometimes.
> 
> --- begin forwarded message ---
> %kurt,
> %
> %Please accept my apologies for the messages.  They are not spam.  Just a
> %message from myself to a friend of mine.
> %
> %I have no clue how it happened, I'm just glad they stopped.  I've been
> %writing about 300 apologies since last night.  It seemed to have been sent
> %multiple times to multiple lists to which I don't subscribe.  
> %
> %Again, I'm VERY SORRY.  Honestly an uninteded error.
> %
> %I have posted apologies to some lists, but not all as I don't know how
> %many it has reached . Please let whatever list you received know that I DO
> %NOT and will not propogate spam!
> %
> %Thank you very much for your understanding
> %
> %vince
> --- end forwarded message ---
> 
> I'm convinced that a chance misalignment of the planets set up a
> magnetic field that mirrored this guy's private email message all
> over the world.  I bet he's hatin' it right now.

When i received the messages i saw they were all Cc'ed to linux-newbie.
Anyway the man appolagised, thats what counts, and a very polite message
it was too.

> 
> -- 
> Kurt Wall
> Informix on Linux FAQ - http://www.xmission.com/~kwall/iolfaq.html
> Spanish Translation   - http://www.xmission.com/~kwall/iolfaqsp.html
> 


-- 
Regards Richard.
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