agree w/ you there ... did not know one required a 'pedigree' ... in the
future will use a 'non-spammer-type' email address.  Thank you for the
insight.

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 12:27 PM
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Well, given that you didn't tell anyone that you were a Stanford Ph.D.
and subscribed from an address that looks suspiciously like one a spammer
would use, I'm not particularly surprised at the response you got. :)

Nathan

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:24:41 -0800 rbnwic rbcnwmicr said:
>I am 'the joker' ... just 'happen' to have wide-ranging interests and
>subscribed to lists per them.  Sorry to 'bother' you 'watchers.'  I have
>never spammed or spoofed ... not my 'trip.'  Guess a Ph.D. from Stanford
>isn't enough to 'merit' list-membership?  Not to mention 33 years of
college
>teaching.  :-)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: LISTSERV list owners' forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
>Behalf Of Scout
>Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 12:06 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: warning: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>> I did a simple DejaNews search:
>>
>> http://www.deja.com/usenet
>>
>> and found no hits (though I'm in there so I guess the SEARCH function
>> does work).
>
>Don't know if this person has spammed to usenet .. and it's very rare.. in
>my opinion, for someone to to to all the work to sub to.. confirm sub, then
>spam email lists.. so whoever this joker is.. gotta admire the work ethic
>;-))
>
>  ...Cleo  [log in to unmask]