Re: spam from an auto-responder

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:58:34 -0500, Andy wrote in message 
<[🔎] 33A4815A-BF5A-11D8-A935-000393ABF064@navigator.co.nz>:

> You could always tell him that he's just handing his new email address
> out to all the spambots testing his old one. That might scare him 
> enough to turn the damn thing off.

..or, this could be an opportunity for an useful-uses-of-netcat-pingpong
contest; there _are_ spammers out there, and the lullaby singer senator
who made his son so drowsy after law school that he took SCOvsIBM,
has stated he "is interested" in such methods, at least to curb music
etc file sharing piracy.

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.