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

From: ben franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Tue Jul 27 22:43:53 2004

Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

> 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"?)
>
Why is there a plural anyhow? As far as I know you only get *one* per
customer. :)
Received on Tue Jul 27 2004 - 22:43:53 BST