Targeted CPAN SPAM

[Nicola Worthington]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Paul Makepeace wrote:

> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 17:08:38 +0100
> From: Paul Makepeace <london.pm.org at paulm.com>
> Reply-To: "London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers" <london.pm at london.pm.org>
> To: London.pm <london.pm at london.pm.org>
> Subject: Targeted CPAN SPAM

When they start commenting about coding style in such automated mailing
I'll get worried. ;-)

> I get a ton of spam through my CPAN address but for the first time one
> that is actually aimed at perl & CPAN users. I for one am not
> particularly bothered about this.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Maxipoint Tech Support <tech at maxipoint.info> -----
>
> From: Maxipoint Tech Support <tech at maxipoint.info>
> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:31:31 +0000
> To: pause.perl.org at paulm.com
> Subject: Useful info for CPAN module authors
> Envelope-to: pause.perl.org at paulm.com
> X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB
> 	autolearn=no version=3.1.0
>
>
> Hello,
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
> http://w3.maxipointservers.net/web/contact.html
>
> Best Regards!
> -GP, Maxipoint Tech Support
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
>

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Nicola Worthington
http://perlgirl.org.uk
nicolaw at cpan.org