[Gllug] British Postal Codes

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Fri Aug 8 17:54:15 UTC 2003


On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 06:48:14PM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> Nope. Looks like a genuine question to me. However, I've noticed an
> increase in useless spam of late. No, I mean *really* useless. More
> so than normal spam. I've been getting some that just consist of
> a random bunch of words (in HTML, or course). It's like someone's
> written a program to pick random lines from /usr/share/dict/words,
> and stick them in an email to me. The most perplexing thing is that
> there's no breast/penis enlargement, investment opportuntiy, access
> to sex sites or reinforced conrete that I'm meant to be buying. I'm
> confused as to how they expect to get money out of mailing me, when
> they don't even provide contact details...

Perhaps some sort of way of validating your address?

Are there any web bugs in there?

Rich.

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