1330  Fwd: Know Someone Who Needs a New Job?

Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 13:21:02 -0700
From: Tango Guy <tangomundo55@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Fwd: Know Someone Who Needs a New Job?

Now how the heck did I get this e-mail!!??!!?? It isn't even tango related. I would appreciate who ever sends these things to cease.


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Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 21:33:09 PDT
From: HotJobs
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Subject: Know Someone Who Needs a New Job?

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Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 22:42:02 +0100
From: Bruce Stephens <bruce@CENDERIS.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Know Someone Who Needs a New Job?

Tango Guy <tangomundo55@YAHOO.COM> writes:

> Now how the heck did I get this e-mail!!??!!?? It isn't even tango
> related. I would appreciate who ever sends these things to cease.

The email suggests that this is a yahoo feature, probably helped by
the fact that Yahoo bought HotJobs a while ago. So try looking at
your account information in yahoo, and see if you can work out how to
switch it off. By default, they probably assume that you want to
receive such valuable offers. (Even if you previously said you
didn't: <https://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/24683.html>.)

In general, spam gets sent to people whose email addresses appear on
the web or in newsgroups.
<https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2969783.stm>. Yours appears on
the web: <https://pythia.uoregon.edu/~llynch/Tango-L/2003/>. So
regardless of what you can get yahoo to not send you, you'll probably
receive spam from random spammers. (Although Yahoo presumably has
spam filters, which may or may not be effective.)

Spam seems to be yet another of the stresses that modern life brings
us. Yet another reason to tango: everything vanishes in the embrace.

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