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[Kim Holburn]

It could be an attempt by spammers to interest Brendan by using some  
data they know about him from say web searches.  Sort of targeted  
spam.  That'd be a worrying but possible scenario.

On 2006 Sep 20, at 6:34 PM, Robin Stephens wrote:

> On 9/20/06, Brendan Scott <brendansweb at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>> I have been receiving a number of spam emails recently which refer  
>> to GNU and/or free software expressly.  Comments?
>
> Obviously an attempt to detrain spam filters by including words that
> will push the spam score below a threshold.

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