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Re: e-mail accusing you of internet terrorism?

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From: Colin R. Leech
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 00:00
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Heather Calder (HLCALDER@FEDS.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
> As one of our most popular economics professors says, "Warning, warning. 
> Danger, danger."
> 
> If you have been chosen as one of the lucky ones, you got an e-mail today 
> telling you to cease and desist flaming and spamming, among other acts of 
> internet terrorism. The e-mail provides an attorney to whom all correspondence 
> is to be addressed, along with a bar number. Seems strange,doesn't it? Maybe 
> some people know more about this than I do, but I called the attorney to find 
> out what the heck it was.
> 
> The e-mail is, of course, a hoax. Do not reply, because the sender is 
> apparently harvesting e-mail addresses for whatever use. The attorney is real, 
> the phone number is real, but the office did not send it out. The FBI is 
> currently investigating the e-mail, and the receptionist at the attorney's 
> office said that the sender is apparently an extremist.
> 
> Just thought I would mention it so that semi-users like myself don't get 
> caught in surprise or upset!
> 
> Heather.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Heather Calder
> VP Student Issues
> UW Federation of Students
> 519-888-4567 ext. 6331
> 
> *SIRC online: http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~fedissue/sirc.html
> *e-mail expert@feds
>  for confidential answers to your questions using UW resources


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Subject: Re: e-mail accusing you of internet terrorism?
Date: 1997/08/13
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