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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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Re: [internetworkers] Re: SPAM the SPAMMERS
, (continued)
- Re: [internetworkers] Re: SPAM the SPAMMERS, Steven Champeon, 11/20/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] Re: SPAM the SPAMMERS, Tanner Lovelace, 11/20/2003
- C/R system math - Re: [internetworkers] Re: SPAM the SPAMMERS, Jeremy Portzer, 11/20/2003
- Re: C/R system math - Re: [internetworkers] Re: SPAM the SPAMMERS, Tanner Lovelace, 11/20/2003
- Re: C/R system math [kook!] - Re: [internetworkers] Re: SPAM the SPAMMERS, Sil Greene, 11/20/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] Re: SPAM the SPAMMERS, Steven Champeon, 11/20/2003
- RE: [internetworkers] Re: SPAM the SPAMMERS, Michael D. Thomas, 11/20/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] Re: SPAM the SPAMMERS, Ian Meyer, 11/20/2003
- RE: [internetworkers] Re: SPAM the SPAMMERS, Sil Greene, 11/20/2003
- RE: [internetworkers] Re: SPAM the SPAMMERS, K. Jo Garner, 11/20/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] Re: SPAM the SPAMMERS, Steven Champeon, 11/20/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] Re: SPAM the SPAMMERS, Tanner Lovelace, 11/20/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] Re: SPAM the SPAMMERS, Sil Greene, 11/20/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] [Tech] SPAM the SPAMMERS, Alan MacHett, 11/19/2003
- Re: [internetworkers] Re: SPAM the SPAMMERS, Tarus Balog, 11/20/2003
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