[SunHELP] Indian spammers are mining the Sunhelp archives

[Phil Stracchino]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:57:55AM -0700, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
>  Phil Stracchino writes ...
> 
> > It appears dcmtech.co.in, "Acme Technical Support", is mining the
> > SunHelp archives for addresses and messages for spamming purposes to
> > advertise their services.  I've gotten five spams from the 
> > bastards this
> > morning, all ostensibly "replies" to messages months old.
> 
> I can't imagine a less-effective marketing strategy.
> 
> Are they spamming from their own netspace, or what?

So it appears.


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