Spam

Richard D G Cox Richard.Cox at mandarin.org
Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:44:46 +0100


On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 01:08:20 +0100, Dave Bird <dave@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>> I've received a Nigerian spam from 'a Private Investigator based in
>> Europe'. An attachment contained a list of addresses which look like
>> the list of contributors to this list.
> 
> So, how hard is it to read without subscribing, or even ask for a
> contributors' list?

There is another way ...

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=369DC9D3.A1C29375%40mrao.cam.ac.uk&rnum=6&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26q%3Dukcrypto

And many more where that come from.

-- 
Richard Cox