On Tuesday, 25 February 2003 at 13:00:41 -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 04:27:35PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> You're missing the point. This message was send by Yahoo!, not an
>> anonymous spammer.
>
> Are you sure you didn't sign up for the "SPAM" message when you created
> some Yahoo! account?
Yes.
On Tuesday, 25 February 2003 at 13:09:52 -0800, Matthew Hunt wrote:
> He may have created the account, after which time Yahoo! "decided"
> that he wanted spam:
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,51461,00.html
>
> # In e-mail messages that began going out last week, Yahoo advised its
> # users that their account preferences had been changed, by Yahoo, to
> # indicate that they wanted to receive advertising solicitations through
> # spam, snail mail and telephone.
Yup, this looks like the one. I can't recall seeing the message,
though. Maybe my spamassassin ate it :-)
On Tuesday, 25 February 2003 at 15:24:20 -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
wrote:
> <trimmed developers@...>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Hunt" <mph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> He may have created the account,
>
> ROFL! Why, in heavens' name...
I checked yesterday, as did Peter Wemm. I created the account in
question years ago only for travel information. The last cookie
issued was to a location in Boston MA. We don't know the date of the
last use, but the last time I was in Boston was in July 2001 for the
USENIX convention.
Of course I've closed the account.
Greg
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