Suspicious off-list e-mail requests? Hardly... (was Re: Shure AMS8000 mixer.)

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Tue Jul 27 21:17:40 2004

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

> >From: Dan <cmonique_at_dodo.com.au>
> >
> >Chris,
> >I was told that you have some documents on the Shure AMS8000 mixer.
> >Is it possible for you to email me a copy of them?
> >
> >Kind regards
> >
> >Dan Allen
>
>
> Hi
> Doesn't anyone find it just a little suspicious that we got
> two request for information for the same rare information? This
> seems to be the typical type of request that we see. I realize
> that it has been stated before that these may in fact be valid
> request from someone looking at the archives. I just don't
> believe it! I get the feeling that these are some kind of
> automatic ( with some intelligence ) address mining bots.
> Am I just paranoid or does anyone else see what I see.
> Dwight

Dwight,

This was explained before and maybe you missed the explanation message.
All the messages that get sent to the list from non-subscribers are held
for moderation. Sometimes the moderators don't get to these messages for
a long period of time (days) and so they queue up. Then when they're
finally approved, they all show up on the list at once. This is strictly
a function of the batch moderation.

The fact that two messages from two different people came in asking about
the same obscure piece of hardware is mere coincidence.

Sure, this could be some hair-brained scheme to harvest e-mail addresses,
but why would anyone go to that much trouble? All you'd need to do is
have a bot subscribe to the list and then suck all the e-mail addresses
that come through. Posing a very legitimate sounding question to get
e-mail addresses seems like a huge waste of time, even for lowly losers
like spammers who have no lives nor penes (<-- plural form of "penis"...I
had to look it up. "Penises" is also acceptable but how many chances do
you get to use the obscure plural form of "penis"?)

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