Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:06:17 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Nigerian Letters
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> bnewton at ashcomp.com 01/29/03 02:00PM
>I started accumulating email in a mailbox called 'SCAM' three or four =
years
>ago.  More disk space than sense, I suppose.  The total to date is
>157.  The first couple of years it was just one or two per year.  =
Beginning
>in 2002 it's averaged one or two per week.  I'm guessing that's when =
the
>authors of these things started buying lists in earnest.  I often get
>duplicates.

I've also received a Tolkien/LOTR and Star Wars variation of the same =
letters.  Tres amusing.

mjw
"I have this bridge to sell . . ."