On Thu 13 Jan, 2000, Brian Tao taob@risc.org wrote:

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, mark wrote:

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Just a quicky. I was spammed today, personally, by someone representaing a certain TLA (3 letter...) storage company, in the guise of a TLA (2 letter) storage company. It was unsolicited and involved a large enclosed document.

Did the document refer to a product with a name similar to Intel's

current low-end consumer CPU? :) I and at least two others have

Strangely yes, it did.

received the same spam. At first I thought it was because I'm on the <certain TLA's> mailing list too, but now it just looks like address harvesting of this list.

What terribly stupid and unethical behaviour on the part of this TLA storage company.

Evidently they are in sore need of new trade if they feel the need to resort to low tactics like this.

My opinion of them sinks yet further..

-- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" -- End of excerpt from Brian Tao