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

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Tue Jul 27 23:08:41 2004

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, ben franchuk wrote:

> 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. :)

Well, in case you come across a box of them or something, I suppose.

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