Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 07:20:28 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Nigerian Letters
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 05:21 PM 01/31/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >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?

It was 6 or 7 years ago, I don't remember.

>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

Candy