New Spam tactic?

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From: Gordon Laurie
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 00:00

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Has anyone else been getting strange e-mails like this one?

>From: RSerr55702 <RSerr55702@aol.com>
>Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 14:16:19 EST
>To: Gordon@glaurie.demon.co.uk
>Subject: ty
>Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com)

>I'm very excited to try this out. Thank you very much. If I could help you
>with anything...

>rserr624@earthlink.net

I'm wondering if it's some new way of spammers trying to find genuine
e-mail addresses. My theory goes that you get this crap message (I've had 2
or 3 in the past few days), then you reply to it along the lines of "Sorry,
don't know what you're talking about........" and then the spamming
b'stards have you down as a "live" address.

Any comments? I'm I just getting more paranoid in my old age. 



Gordon


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From: gordon@glaurie.demon.co.uk (Gordon Laurie)
Subject: New Spam tactic?
Date: 1998/01/09
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