Re: VA Linux's Spamming

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• From: "Yves Bellefeuille" <[email protected]>
• Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 18:09:19 -0500
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[email protected] wrote:

> They didn't get it from this list as far as I can tell.

They got the addresses from the documentation itself. Probably they're
also going through the source code to find addresses -- that's what Red
Hat also apparently did.

I think that sending unsolicited 1 Mb messages to hundreds or thousands 
of people is extremely inappropriate.


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