On Tuesday 01 July 2003 08:39 am, Wim De Smet wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:24:43 -0500 > > David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 29 June 2003 03:01 am, cr wrote: > > > On Saturday 28 June 2003 05:39, alex wrote: > > > > I'm getting a lot of junk mail that is addressed to this list. Am > > > > I the only one getting this stuff? > > > > > > > > alex > > > > > > The polite term for it is 'Spam' :( > > > > > > Nope, I'm getting it too. Most noticeably the loony with his > > > 60-K-sized posts about 'IEEP' and bizarre gobbledygook. Six of 'em > > > at last count.... > > > > Can someone explain what these are all about? I've seen some of these > > types of huge amounts of gibberish on other lists.. Are they strictly > > for harassment or what? > > I don't know which mails you're talking about, but it could simply be > spam in some foreign language, like chinese or japanese, which your > mailclient can't view...
No.. it's mails like the one referred to above.. (about 'IEEP'), several of which appeared on this list a few days ago.. Long strings of incoherent words.. not making any sense at all.. I've seen similar entries before on other lists and newsgroups.. in particular groups like mail-abuse-sightings, etc. It almost seems as if they are simply to harass the group and take up bandwidth... It really doesn't matter, I suppose, but I have been curious about them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
