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  • From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Re: SPAM the SPAMMERS
  • Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:10:24 -0500

on Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:53:39PM -0500, K. Jo Garner wrote:
> 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/

The owner of joes.com was the subject of one of the first huge forged
sender spam runs; hence' "joe'd" or "joe job".

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