On 6/5/07, Mike VanHelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Honestly, digging any deeper would be a big fat sack of work, and I don't
have the time or motivation. If anyone's interested, they can
cross-reference the header info in this post with the other header info in
the list and see if they come up with anything -- that would be my next
step, were I to take a next step -- but I just don't want to put in the
effort.
Probably not worth it. But thanks. BTW I just checked www.aol.com and it
would take about 2 seconds to create a fraudulent account. Of course it's
against AOL policy, but what the heck:
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