more reason to hunt them down with pitchforks. :)

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)

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On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu wrote:

> >
> > Note:
> > To Opt-In on future VersaCheck information, please click on the following link:
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> >
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>
> Heh, this part amuses me the most.  I thought it was illegal (in many
> places) to send spam _before_ someone has already opted in.  If you
> Opt-In, you'll get more spam.  If you _don't_ Opt-Out, you'll get more
> spam... Bah!  If you Opt-Out, they'll say, "Woo hoo!  Valid email address
> ripe for the spamming!" and they'll sell it off and you'll get more spam.
> Spammers die now.
>
> <background> Apparently, some evil spammer just ran an address harvesting
> script on our web site (www.smi.umn.edu), so I've been fighting off spam
> for the last couple of weeks.  I'm _really_ getting sick of it.  Oh, so
> much spam to out www and various user support aliases.  Grrrrr....
>
> Gabe
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> U of M Supercomputing Institute for	       |    University of Minnesohta
> Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation    |       dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu
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