16 April, 2011

spam and fidonet

I got a spam the other day, addressed to an address that isn't mine. That's not unusual. What was unusual was the address they used. It isn't mine, but it was mine when I was a teenager - benc@donor2.demon.co.uk was my internet address on DoNoR/2, an OS/2 focused BBS near Woking (in those days, young whippersnappers, you cared down to the town level where you were connecting to - DoNoR/2 was in dialing code 01483, the same as Guildford where I grew up). DoNoR/2 was primarily a fidonet system - 2:252/156, and then after the BS of geonetting, 2:440/4, and I was point 2 off that - Ben Clifford at 2:252/156.2

So although I'm usually annoyed when spam gets through my filters, this one made me think: aaah natsukashi.

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:44:27 -0800 (PST)                                     
From: Jim Vivona                                            
To: benc@donor2.demon.co.uk                                                     
Subject: re                                                                     
                                        

sup! if you hadn't heard i lost my job at lawncare company about 5              
weeks ago, then i found this news article and made 379 in a few                 
hours!! I guess it was for the best! I learned from - News channel 4            
talk to you later!  

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:44:27 -0800 (PST)                                     
From: Jim Vivona                                            
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To: benc@donor2.demon.co.uk                                                     
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2 comments:

  1. ah fidonet. i had one but i don't remember what it was...

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  2. well i guess it began 1:

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