Re: Want to make money???!!!!!!

From: Mark Feldman <pcgpe@geocities.com>

Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Malcolm Smith wrote:
>
> Congratulations!  You have just entered into an illegal activity --
> pyramid selling.   This is illegal in most countries and because I am
> sick to the back teeth of these messages appearing over the Usenet I
> will be reporting your message to the appropriate authorities in your
> country.

As with all spam posts, you should check the header before doing things
like this. Look at the relevent entries of the post in question:

Path:
ix.netcom.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsrelay.netins.net!news.netins.net!purviance
From: eyezzz@pinion.sl.pitt.edu (Bill Purvaince)
Organization: netINS, Inc.
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <5gnmv6$6vt@insosf1.netins.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: desm-07-41.dialup.netins.net

It was clearly faked by someone with a netins account, presumably to get
the victim in a lot of trouble. The guy's surname is even spelled wrong
in the path! It's a truly malicious thing to do to someone, and
responding in the manner you did doesn't make things any easier for the
REAL Bill Purvaince.

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Mark Feldman                                mailto:pcgpe@geocities.com
                           http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2151

References

Want to make money???!!!!!!
eyezzz@pinion.sl.pitt.edu (Bill Purvaince)
Wed, 19 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Want to make money???!!!!!!
Malcolm Smith <dragondrop@REMOVEmistral.co.uk>
Wed, 19 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000