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  • From: "K. Jo Garner" <kelly AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] Re: SPAM the SPAMMERS
  • Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:53:39 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Sil Greene wrote:
->
->I'm only confused on one thing: where did the term joe-job come from and
->how did it get linked to spam? I think I've heard the phrase before
->this thread but never in an online context.

It's not in the OED yet ;) so I can't give a definitive definition of
origin but there's a page here
http://members.cox.net/joejob/

about it.

Cheers
KJ

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