Posted by Adrian A on 07/27/06 13:57

Mik F wrote:
> Adrian A wrote:
>
>> Perfectly reasonable requests? You must be joking! It's almost
>> certainly another spammer harvesting e-mail addresses. You must be a
>> very gullible person if you think it's genuine.
>> --
>> Adrian
>
> Yeah, cos that's how spammers typically go about harvesting a dozen or
> so email addresses.... rather than stripping out email addresses from
> the billions out there in usenet post headers...
>
> Oops.
>
> Mik.

Many e-mail addresses in usenet headers are forged, if you recieve an e-mail
from someone this is far less likely. The spammers know this even if you
don't.
--
Adrian

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