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Re: all those unwanted congratulations

1996-12-18 14:58:07
My apologies to John Levine and the list managers. The first header
quoted below is mine, although I'm not sure what happened, but my
anti-spam kludge seems to be involved. My sincere apologies to all
affected. 
                                        David Hunt <dnhunt(_at_)rain(_dot_)org>

On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, John R Levine wrote:
Sorry about all those messages congratulating you for your skill at
sending e-mail.  My autoresponder seems to have been subscribed at 2:00 
this morning, I fixed it as soon as I came in about 11:00.
(stuff deleted)
Finally, it's not clear whether my responder got subscribed deliberately 
or due to a failed tweak to someone else's anti-spam filters.

The latter, I can asure you. I still don't know how the procmail list
got involved, though

(more snipped)
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Subject: test of procmail filters;
 

The header above is mine. I was using a cgi script at pitt.edu to
'fake' mail to test my filter. I had set the filter to forward
spam-mail to internet(_at_)dummies(_dot_)com, hoping that autoresponder would
then send the congatulatory note to the spammer. (I've since removed
that part.)

The header below has me mystified.
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