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Re: READ THIS RIGHT NOW!!!!!!! - money.wri [1/1]

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From: Smith
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 00:00
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dwilkins@orion.polaristel.net (Don Wilkins) wrote:

>On Tue, 20 Aug 1996 20:47:01 -0700, david_brewer <@hp.com> wrote:
>>More Money wrote:

[snip]

>balance of illegal chainletter snipped.

>Either this guy is dumber than a hammer or a genius. As you can see
>from the headers this is posted using Hewlett-Packard facilities and
>presumably on company time. The question is "can he possibly be dumb
>enough to do this illegal posting on dozens of newsgroups representing
>Hewlett-Packard or is he smart enough to forge the postings? Of course
>there is always the possibility (remote) that Hewlett-Packard is
>promoting this scheme because business is slow. At any rate it is
>unusual to see Hewlett-Packard's name plastered in the headers of an
>illegal chainletter.

In Free Agent you can just change the Organization field under
"Options | Preferences".

>Note the headers copied below.

[snip]

>Organization: Hewlett-Packard

[snip]

>Surely someone in all of these newsgroups which his message is spammed
>to will know to whom this illegal activity should be reported to.



Cheers,
Damien

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Subject: Re: READ THIS RIGHT NOW!!!!!!! - money.wri [1/1]
Date: 1996/08/27
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