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Old January 19th 07, 11:08 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Stewart Robert Hinsley Stewart Robert Hinsley is offline
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In message , Kate Brown
writes
In article , dated Fri, 19 Jan
2007, "Keith (Southend)" wrote
Tony Powell wrote:
Hi,
I don't know how true it is or how deadly etc. but you should check
the following article
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6278079.stm
Regards
Tony Powell


Thanks Tony for posting that on here, It's probably one we would be
tempted to open without a thought.

Indeed, and I've had several spam emails over the last few days
purporting to be snow reports from the US. The fact that the subject
titles were all in upper-case, and the senders were patently
computer-generated or had sent to spamtrap addresses, allowed me to
delete them unopened.


I've been getting those. I thought that they were just random text to
defeat spam filters and assumed that there was a payload (spam) in the
form of a GIF down the bottom.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley