Erroneous delivery of list e-mail (was Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard )

Yuri Grebenkin breath at unix.net
Wed Apr 11 11:25:51 UTC 2007


On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:55:07 -0700
soralx at cydem.org wrote:

> > > I'd like everyone to note that I'm merely curious; this is the
> > > fourth person in 24 hours to say "why in the world am I getting
> > > these e-mails?" or "please unsubscribe me", including 2 G-mail
> 
> do you think that it wasn't simply spam? I once got a finely crafted
> spam with quoutes from the lists, which I read almost halfway before
> realizing that I was losing the thread far too often, and maybe not
> because of my logic unit being particularly slow that day...
> 
> Maybe what we're seeing is an emergent behaviour of the Internet --
> distributed intelligence that got lonely and bored and wants to
> chat? :-o I can't seem to think of a sane reason to send out messages
> full of garbage that have a chance of being deleted close to 100%.
> Doing that on a massive scale seems to me to be beyond any logic or
> reason.
> 
> > > Kevin Kinsey

But those people seem to be so human and unique.
Ahh... After all, not every minute you get such cuties here :-).

- Yuri



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