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           No, I didn't miss your email, I'm ignoring it on purpose

> From: John Hawthorne <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: follow up
> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 05:02:45 +0000
>
> Hey there
>
> Just a quick follow up in case you’ve missed my email. If you’re short on
> time right now — no worries. I won’t bug you about it again. I forgot to
> mention in my previous email that you may republish my work if you prefer.
>
> Thank you,
>
> John.
>

The email continues with a quoting of his previous email [1].

This is something else I've noticed with this type of spam—follow-up messages
when I didn't respond. I guess it works (or they wouldn't bother with it),
although now I'm thinking I should update the post in question [2] with a
link to this entry just to see what happens.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2017/11/30.1
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2009/09/14.1

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