Panasonic KXP4400 Laser Printer

From: TeoZ <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Wed Jul 23 20:08:00 2003

I have been getting alot of nigerian letters lately, something I really
never got in the past at all.


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From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwightk.elvey_at_amd.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: Panasonic KXP4400 Laser Printer


> Hi Sellam
> A while back there was one of these that Patrick Rigney
> responded to. He got no reply from that person. I have also
> replied to one such mail without a response.
> It seems to be a real slow way of fishing for email addresses
> but maybe that is what it is. It surely is funny since,
> so far, these seem to be bogus. The questions they ask sound
> like they almost know what they are doing but they are often
> right on the edge of being incorrect questions.
> I don't see what they are up to. Maybe this is used to create
> an exclusive list for the Nigerian letters. I get more of these
> now at this mail address then I do with my hotmail account.
> I'm only on two mail groups with this account. My hotmail is
> bursting with offers to enhance or reduce various parts of
> my body.
> I can't think why anyone smart enough to work on classic computers
> would be stupid enough to fall for one of these scams. I've
> even started replying to some of these scammers to let them know that
> their email address harvesting methods were being used by so many
> other scammers that they were most likely worthless. I do this
> in the hopes that they'll find some other method that doesn't
> include me.
> Dwight
>
>
> >From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf_at_siconic.com>
> >
> >On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Hanan Friedman wrote:
> >
> >> I have the same drum problem. I appreciate very much if you could help
me on
> >> advise of how to put the printer into Service Mode and reset the page
> >> counter to 00000
> >
> >I've noticed in the past few weeks a lot of messages from newbies that
> >don't seem to be subscribed to the list, but who are responding to old
> >messages or just posting general questions and such. Was the list
address
> >posted as some sort of open help forum in some news article or something?
> >
> >Or is this just the magic of Google?
> >
> >--
> >
> >Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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