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Date:      Fri, 2 Mar 2001 08:41:18 +1300
From:      "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   spam from BSDSearch.com (was Re: Daemon News Ezine, March 2001 (not spam!))
Message-ID:  <200103011941.f21JfK605410@ns1.unixathome.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzp3dcx5tgm.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  Wes Peters's message of "Thu, 01 Mar 2001 09:44:48 -0700"

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On 1 Mar 2001, at 17:45, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> writes:
> > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > > Gregory Sutter <gsutter@daemonnews.org> writes:
> > > > P.S.:  We'll never spam you.
> > > Funny. BSDSearch claims to be sponsored by Daemon News.
> > Ugh.  No, they're not.  Why would DN sponsor something to compete with
> > search.daemonnews.org?
> 
> Well, then, that's a cease-and-desist just waiting to happen, isn't
> it? Check it out yourself - http://www.bsdsearch.com/ lists Daemon
> News at the top of the "Sponsors" section of their front page.
> 
> The ironic part is that the "Which BSD site is sending out spam?"
> Daily Daemon News article is listed on BSDSearch's "Latest Headlines"
> section :)

For those wondering what the spammer is claiming, try these threads 
from the BSDSearch forums:

http://bsdsearch.com/eao/phorum2/read.php?f=1&i=24&t=16

http://bsdsearch.com/eao/phorum2/read.php?f=1&i=26&t=16

Basically, they are admitting that a friend made a list of BSD emails.  It 
appears they thought spamming people was OK, but didn't know their 
list contained mailing list addresses.

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Dan Langille
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