Re: A thought about why we get spammed

From: Robert Heller <heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:00:53 +0200

At Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:24:40 -0000 Ross Presser <rpresser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Maybe the spammer found the substring "scrip" in the group name and
assumed it refers to money?

Doubtful. Spammers just randomly spam newsgroups en mass from time to
time. I doubt there is any real 'intelligent' thought behind the choice
of newsgroups.

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