Suspicious off-list e-mail requests? Hardly... (was Re: Shure AMS8000 mixer.)

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Dwight K. Elvey wrote: Dwight, This was explained before and maybe you missed the explanation message. All the messages that get sent to the list from non-subscribers are held for moderation. Sometimes the moderators don't get to these messages for a long period of time (days) and so they queue up. Then when they're finally approved, they all show up on the list at once. This is strictly a function of the batch moderation. The fact that two messages from two different people came in asking about the same obscure piece of hardware is mere coincidence. Sure, this could be some hair-brained scheme to harvest e-mail addresses, but why would anyone go to that much trouble? All you'd need to do is have a bot subscribe to the list and then suck all the e-mail addresses that come through. Posing a very legitimate sounding question to get e-mail addresses seems like a huge waste of time, even for lowly losers like spammers who have no lives nor penes (<-- plural form of "penis"...I had to look it up. "Penises" is also acceptable but how many chances do you get to use the obscure plural form of "penis"?) -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]