On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:04:29AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:34:27AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > I wonder if there's something about the word "Debian" that makes > > people think it's something totally different from what it really is. > > debian-curiosa... curiosities pertaining to Debia... who/what/where is > > Debia? Sounds vaguely classical; maybe it refers to some group of > > ancient Greeks noted for a particular perversion. Maybe it means > > people who do rude things with peach juice? > > > > The thing that struck me about this particular spam was that > > disclaimer thing saying that under some US law it couldn't be > > considered spam because it had a click-to-unsubscribe link. Surely > > that can't be true? > > > > I preferred the one offering wet blue cows, several metres square but > > really thin... brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "and now, > > adding colour... a group of anonymous Latin-American meat-packing glitterati". > > I believe they always refer to bill number such and such, since none of > those idiotic proposed bills that would let them get away with something > that silly have been passed, but they hope that by mentioning a bill > maybe people won't hate them as much. "Did they expect us to treat them with any respect?" Well, it was a new one on me... thanks to spambayes, it's very rare for me to actually read a spam these days! > More interesting question is: Who is the moron that keeps subscribing > all the debian lists to this idiotic mailing list? > > There is something to be said for subscriber only posts to mailing > lists. It looks like the idiotic list's subscription mechanism doesn't require a confirmation email to be answered, or anything like that, so it's wide open for abuse. Thanks to the listmasters, who have now blacklisted that list. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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