Fellow GIS-JOBs listener....
This might sound paraniod, but there is a possibility that emails like the
one below are purely designed to harvest email addresses.
Various people collect email addresses and sell them to marketing groups who
then do mass marketing on products like Dentist Services, Pornography, Get
Rich Quick Scams, etc.
By replying to the email as requested (ie No, his/her posting is not
appropriate for this list), you inadvertently are suppying your email
address. In this case, considering the title of our jobs list it sounds like
a rather suspicious question to ask.
So the lesson is don't REPLY to emails that have been sent to a mass of
people. Additionally don't respond to any such mail, even if they say by
doing so will "remove you from their database". It will only allow them to
confirm that your address (as supplied to them by someone like "Fat Bob") is
a valid address!
If I am wrong, sorry.
Regards
Steve
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Steven Bird
B.AgricSci(Hons), AACS.
GIS Research and Development
Integrated Fire Information System
Fire Management Branch
Dept. Natural Resources and Environment
Melbourne, Australia
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>From: "fat bob" <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: "fat bob"
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: articles regarding Women & Disability
>Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:03:59 +0100
>
> is this really relevant to
>thi list?
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