From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Spam from Mystic Toad Press
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 03:27:11 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elspeth Kovar" <ekovar at worldnet.att.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 2:49 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Spam from Mystic Toad Press

> At 10:13 PM 3/3/05, Sam Pierce wrote:
> >I got an ad for a shared-world anthology.  I presume I was blind
> >carbon-copied, as the only recipient listed in GMAIL's limited header
> >was priscilla at baskerville.org.  Per Google, that's Priscilla Olson of
> >the Boston branch of fandom.  I wonder where they harvested the email
> >addresses and how widely they've spammed the community.
>
> Oddly enough, I brought this up on another list tonight as I'd gotten the
> same email.  I hadn't thought to do a google on the address as it was
> pretty generic and I figured that it was just that of someone involved
with
> the other folks it was sent to being BCC.  But just did: Arin Komins, of
> Oak Park, Illinois.

If you haven't already deleted this spam, you might try hitting the "reply
to all" button to see a full list of the recipients.  I'm *not* suggesting
you then hit "send."

I'm guessing this was a list of conrunner fans; I was lucky enough not to
get sent one.

--Ted White