I also noticed in the body of the e-mail that a portion of the
link they advertise says "click.cgi?22+" followed by my
e-mail address.  This leads me to believe someone manually
pasted my address into a script.  Or used a macro.

Tracy M. Johnson
TRW Automotive Electronics
Sensors & Components

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stigers, Greg [And] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 10:58 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Is Anyone Getting a Certain Spam?
>
>
> X-no-Archive:yes
> Ditto. Thanks for identifying where this started.
> Particularly annoying to
> me is there statement at bottom that it "is never sent unsolicited.".
> Besides being lying filthy vermin, they apparently define solicitation
> rather broadly. However, someone else may have harvested
> these addresses and
> sold them. This proves Wirt's point that spammers will
> harvest addresses by
> various means, so X-no-Archive:yes does me less good than I
> would hope.
>
> According to spamcop.net:
> This message references web/mail addresses which are under
> the control of
> the same ISP which is responsible for sending the email. This is very
> unusual for spam. Please think extra hard about whether or
> not this email is
> really spam before you report it.
> and
> ISP has already taken action against the account:http:// <SNIP>
> /cgi-bin/email.cgi sometime after Wednesday, August 09, 2000
> 7:31:41 AM
> -0400
>
> Whois on their host, splitinfinity.net yields
> Registrant:
> SplitInfinity (SPLITINFINITY2-DOM)
>    14180 Carmel Ridge Road
>    San Diego, CA 92128
>
>    Domain Name: SPLITINFINITY.NET
>
>    Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact,
> Billing Contact:
>       Jester, Norman  (NJ249)  [log in to unmask]
>       SplitInfinity Networks Operations Center
>       13553 Poway Rd.
>       San Diego, CA 92064
>       858-679-2814 (FAX) 858-679-2854
>
>    Record last updated on 28-Apr-2000.
>    Record expires on 26-Mar-2003.
>    Record created on 26-Mar-1998.
>    Database last updated on 10-Aug-2000 01:08:17 EDT.
>
>    Domain servers in listed order:
>
>    NS1.SPLITINFINITY.NET        209.132.86.17
>    NS2.SPLITINFINITY.NET        209.132.86.18
>
> I'm not sure how much satisfaction we can get out of Norman
> AKA Chris. I'm
> crazy enough to email the guy just in case. Anyone want to
> give him call in
> San Diego? I guess it wouldn't be very nice to give his
> number to all the
> other spammers who have graciously provided me with their 800 numbers.
>
> Greg Stigers
> http://www.cgiusa.com
>