[Air-l] please delete me from this mailing list

Julie Bertolino jbert453 at regiscollege.edu
Mon Mar 25 15:10:16 PST 2002


unsubscribe me 
from 
Air-1 at aoir.org
thanks

----- Original 
Message -----
From: Valdis 
<valdis at orgnet
.com>
Date: Monday, 
March 25, 
2002 12:49 pm
Subject: [Air-l] 
Re: ethnic 
spamming

> Yes, I have 
also receive 
regular Korean 
& Chinese 
spam that I 
> cannot read. 
> Once you get 
a on list...
> 
> When I start 
receiving 
SPAM written 
in Latvian, I will 
know that 
> someone has
> perfected a 
'ethnic finder'.  
This may not be 
that hard to do 
-- 
> just look for
> first names 
that are 
common only in 
that language.  
I'm sure 
> someone Perl
> expert could 
even write code 
to differentiate 
between 
nationalities 
> withsimilar 
spellings... i.e. 
Valdis[Latvian 
--> send 
SPAM about 
> Riga based
> business], 
Valdas[Lithuani
an --> send 
SPAM about 
Vilnius based 
> business].
> Valdis Krebs
> 
http://www.orgn
et.com
> 
> 
> 
air-l-request at a
oir.org wrote:
> > 
> [SNIP] 
> > 
> > AFAIK, I 
have not signed 
up to any 
"indian" or 
"pakistani" or 
south
> > asian 
websites, they 
must have 
dredged e-mail 
addresses and 
then 
> matched> 
them with ethnic 
names.
> > 
> > Anyone 
else come 
across this fine 
grained 
spamming?
> > 
> [SNIP]
> > 
> > Indeed I 
have... also 
many spam in a 
character set 
that looks 
> like Japanese,
> > Mandarin 
or Korean...
> > 
> [SNIP]
> 
> 
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