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                 More academic dishonesty in spamming circles

I don't think all spammers are using copyright material [1] to avoid Bayesian
filtering. I received some today that are using public domain material—one
using a section from Jack London's White Fang (and funnily enough, trying to
get me to refinance Condo Conner, which I sold last year! [2]—okay, okay, I
lived there for 14 years but still, you'd think they could update their
information) and another one using a section from Rudyard Kipling's Rikki-
tikki-tavi [3] (which is yet another one trying to get me to refinance Condo
Conner).

But then I get another one, this time quoting from an essay about Bill Gates
[4], so there is still hope of getting DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act)
on their ass …

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2003/10/27.2
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/08/08.1
[3] http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/usr/mongoose/www/rtt.html
[4] http://www.joesessays.com/misc/17.shtml

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