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from "David W.E. Roberts" contains these words:

I am talking about offers to increase the size of various organs, the supply
of various drugs, and lately a query if five miles towing is adequate(!).

This is mainly commercially orientated SPAM using consolidated lists of
email addresses.

One source of these addresses is the automated trawling of News Groups for
valid email addresses.

There was an attempt to 'conceal' the addresses after voting but I am not
sure it was effective.

I don't think any of them bother with automatically reassembling munged
addresses in the bodies of items, the returns would be so tiny.

I've suddenly started getting spam to an address which hasn't been used
in the wild for five or six years. Old archives are being rifled, it
seems, because so much stuff nowadays is spamtrapped.

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Rusty
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