Hi Sellam A while back there was one of these that Patrick Rigney responded to. He got no reply from that person. I have also replied to one such mail without a response. It seems to be a real slow way of fishing for email addresses but maybe that is what it is. It surely is funny since, so far, these seem to be bogus. The questions they ask sound like they almost know what they are doing but they are often right on the edge of being incorrect questions. I don't see what they are up to. Maybe this is used to create an exclusive list for the Nigerian letters. I get more of these now at this mail address then I do with my hotmail account. I'm only on two mail groups with this account. My hotmail is bursting with offers to enhance or reduce various parts of my body. I can't think why anyone smart enough to work on classic computers would be stupid enough to fall for one of these scams. I've even started replying to some of these scammers to let them know that their email address harvesting methods were being used by so many other scammers that they were most likely worthless. I do this in the hopes that they'll find some other method that doesn't include me. Dwight >From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com> > >On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Hanan Friedman wrote: > >> I have the same drum problem. I appreciate very much if you could help

>> advise of how to put the printer into Service Mode and reset the page >> counter to 00000 > >I've noticed in the past few weeks a lot of messages from newbies that >don't seem to be subscribed to the list, but who are responding to old >messages or just posting general questions and such. Was the list

>posted as some sort of open help forum in some news article or something? > >Or is this just the magic of Google? > >-- > >Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer

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