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In article <m5ZHTB8w165w@sizone.UUCP> spooge@sizone.UUCP (Cyberpolka On Da Jeep) writes:
>roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
>
>> > I got a mail message with the following headers:
>> > 
>> > | From:	Lawrence Davenport III <ld37@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu>
>> > | Subject: educational stock market game
>> >  
>> I got _2_copies_!  And both had duplicated text in them.  Obviously, Mr.
>> Davenport's mail-creation robot needs adjustment.
>
>Even I got a copy at my school account. Thank god my low bandwidth UUCP
>site didnt have to endure it.
>
>HOW did he get so many valid addresses? By doing finger @machine after
>getting a list of machines? Scanning the whole usenet for unique
>"From: " lines?

Didn't do it with finger because my public-access node does not have a
direct Internet connection and I received one of these dumb-ass
letters.  I think he scanned through comp.* posters, or maybe just the 
whole news spool  B^>.

I replied, telling him to take me off any list he had...

Damon
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