On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:01:19 -0600 (Central Standard Time), Tom
Emerson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>This morning in my inbox I got a message sent to me and 799 of my closest
>friends :)  Yup, somebody sent a message directly to me and just about
>everyone else on the comp.sys.hp.mpe newsgroup and/or hp3000-l mailinglist
>looking for a protos programmer.  Considering the recent "statistics" Jeff
>posted, I'm curious as to which group of people he actually ended up sending
>this to [note: the "799" above is a WAG]
>
>In any case, I've sent the guy a nice [long] letter explaining [nicely!] that
>it is quite likely his request would fall on deaf ears because many "spam
>filters" would treat his message as such and drop it without letting you
>folks know he sent it.  I further suggested he might get better results by
>actually registering for this list and posting legitimately and let the
>listserv/newsgroup do the "spamming" for him\

Or better yet, maybe his offshore outsourcing company can use some of
the money they are making to train him.

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