Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:21:56 -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>

>candymadigan at mindspring.com 01/31/03 05:03PM
>>At 09:17 PM 01/29/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>Ivy Yap <yapivy at techemail.com> wrote:
>> > Wow, all this talk of spam and letters from Nigeria.  I think I've
>> > gotten less than 10 spam messages since I started using e-mail.
>> > I feel unloved! ;)
>>
>>Your email address has apparently never appeared in any newsgroup
>>posting, on any public web page, or anywhere else that spammers
>>scrounge addresses from.
>>
>> > And where's all the porn spam that people keep complaining about?
>> > How come I never get any? :D
>>
>>How many would you like?  I have plenty I'm not using.
>>
>>Like Rich, I currently get far more Spanish Prisoner ("Nigerian") spam
>>than "four reports" chain letters.  But this may be because the latter
>>are far more stereotypical, thus easier to filter out.  The "Nigerian"
>>ones tend to all be slightly different.  The ones that are actually
>>*from* Nigeria can easily be blocked.  I discard everything from that
>>country or from Argentina, China, Korea, and Taiwan, as those are all
>>major source of spam, and seem to have few if any non-spammer email
>>users.
>
>Glad I'm not still stationed in Korea.

Wouldn't you have a .mil address?

Anyway, right now is not a good time to be over there - and I'm also glad =
I'm not over there (lived there from April 1960 to mid 1962 or so, came =
back in time to settle in and then have the Cuban crisis).

mjw