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Colin Blackburn said:

I just got an odd email, shown below. The reason I post it here is that the To: line had ten email
addresses one of which was Myra's, the other eight I didn't recognise.

[email hidden] ? Don't you recognize that? I mean, I've been away a long time, but...

Harumph. Everybody ignores me. I noticed you.

Ambrose

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I assume the usual sort of shenanigans, but did wonder if urc posters had been targeted
specifically, anyone else get one?

Colin

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Colin Blackburn said:

I just got an odd email, shown below. The reason I post it here is that the To: line had ten email
addresses one of which was Myra's, the other eight I didn't recognise. I assume the usual sort of
shenanigans, but did wonder if urc posters had been targeted specifically, anyone else get one?

Yep - got [censored] with all the rest of the spam. It's a novel ruse, mind - send someone an
email saying that they've been removed from some list or other, they reply saying something like
'what have I been removed from' and *bam!* let the spam fest begin.

Simon
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Colin Blackburn <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

I just got an odd email, shown below. The reason I post it here is that the To: line had ten email
addresses one of which was Myra's, the other eight I didn't recognise. I assume the usual sort of
shenanigans, but did wonder if urc posters had been targeted specifically, anyone else get one?

I noticed this, recognized your name but no one else's, and though "Great, whatever list I've been
eliminated from, so much the better!"

Quoted message said:

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It's a novel ruse, mind - send someone an email saying that

they've been

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removed from some list or other, they reply saying something like

'what have

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I been removed from' and *bam!* let the spam fest begin.

I guessed that that was the ploy, so I used Myra's address to reply ;-)

Ha! I'll get revenge, somehow... I'm sure there must be a [censored]-email-a-minute list around somewhere
that I can sign you up to.

-Myra

Simon Ward said:

Colin Blackburn said:

I just got an odd email, shown below. The reason I post it here is that the To: line had ten email
addresses one of which was Myra's, the other eight I didn't recognise. I assume the usual sort of
shenanigans, but did wonder if urc posters had been targeted specifically, anyone else get one?

Yep - got [censored] with all the rest of the spam. It's a novel ruse, mind - send someone an
email saying that they've been removed from some list or other, they reply saying something like
'what have I been removed from' and *bam!* let the spam fest begin.

I guessed that that was the ploy, so I used Myra's address to reply ;-)

Colin

"Ambrose Nankivell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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Colin Blackburn said:

I just got an odd email, shown below. The reason I post it here is that the To: line had ten
email addresses one of which was Myra's, the other eight I didn't recognise.

[email hidden] ? Don't you recognize that? I mean, I've been away a long time, but...

I've got the email. No-one I recognise, but seems to have bike shop email addresses

"Myra VanInwegen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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Ha! I'll get revenge, somehow... I'm sure there must be a [censored]-email-a-minute list around
somewhere that I can sign you up to.

Revenge?

Ambrose Nankivell said:

Colin Blackburn said:

I just got an odd email, shown below. The reason I post it here is that the To: line had ten email
addresses one of which was Myra's, the other eight I didn't recognise.

[email hidden] ? Don't you recognize that? I mean, I've been away a long time, but...

Harumph. Everybody ignores me. I noticed you.

I didn't even see this follow-up until WK followed up your post. Just who are you anyway?

Colin

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Ha! I'll get revenge, somehow... I'm sure there must be a [censored]-email-a-minute list around somewhere
that I can sign you up to.

Well Myra, if it's one where it's jpgs of the blokes here in nothing but their cycle shorts - sign
me up! ;-)

Cheers, helen s🙂

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Quoted message said:

I just got an odd email, shown below. The reason I post it here is that the To: line had ten email
addresses one of which was Myra's, the other eight I didn't recognise. I assume the usual sort of
shenanigans, but did wonder if urc posters had been targeted specifically, anyone else get one?

Colin

snipety snip

Yup I got it too.

wafflycathcsdirtycatlitter said:

Well Myra, if it's one where it's jpgs of the blokes here in nothing but their cycle shorts - sign
me up! ;-)

Trust me that's something you don't want to see ;-)

Tony

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