Re: Spam site -was: Hotmail

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From: Tim Howarth
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 00:00

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In message <485A646FA3%polaris@ursaminr.demon.com.uk>
          Peter Smith <polaris@ursaminr.demon.com.uk> wrote:

> Tell me about it. I had 210 bounced emails waiting for me between mid
> afternoon Friday and 7pm.
> 
> A very kind spammer had spammed what appeared to be the whole of AOL, with
> the "From:" and "Message-Id" set to "giffy@ursaminr.demon.co.uk" :-( I think
> I pissed someone off :-(

I've had this to, addressed to giffy@worthy.demon and
retiredPI@worthy.demon and spymaster@....

Complete pain in the bum, I've even had a follow up purporting to be
someone complaining about me sending the spam!

Anyone else had this lately ?

I've contacted demon to see if they can sort it out as I was receiving
a couple of dozen or so per day at around 11k each.

(They seem to have stopped/slowed for the time being.)

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From: Tim Howarth <tim@worthy.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Spam site -was: Hotmail
Date: 1998/06/23
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