Response to Spammers

I was going through some old emails, looking for a particular old email to put on the blog, when I ran across this one:

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From: E-mail magnum
Sent: Monday, June 02, 1997 03:39
To: you@SWBELL.net
Subject:Why does everyone make money but me?

House wifes
High School Students
College Students
Professionals
( Anyone can make money all you need is a home computer )

One of the most expensive things to get on the internet is good e-mail addresses. Why? Because good e-mail addresses can make the average computer owner a great deal of money. Let me give you an example, a average computer owner sent letters to over
4 million people he received a 3% responce on slaes that means his $10-$20 prepaid phone cards were sold to over $40,000 people you do the math. An internet directory says their receiving a 10% responce. There selling a $20 product. That means every 1
,000 addresses they send out they receive about 100 responces. That means there making $2,000 for about 2 hours worth of work, wouldn't that be nice!

These lists can run hundreds of dollars and up. For the first time the averagecomputer owner can afford to get into this thriving bussiness oppurtunity. We will e-mail you over 2 million addresses, yes 2 million!!!! Imagine if you could sell over 2 m
illion people your product for only $29.95. You can't afford not to get these names even if you don't have a product yet. This is a limited offer and you won't find this many GOOD e-mail addresses at this price ever again.

Contact us at:

winnero1@Juno.com

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From: Andrew Hevle
Sent: Monday, June 02, 1997 12:58 PM
To: E-mail magnum
Subject:RE: Why does everyone make money but me?

Dear E-mail Magnum,

One of the nice things about being a computer owner is making use of the computer to do things that the computer owner cannot; for example, spelling. Most computers have a spell checking function which allows you to avoid embarrassing errors such as:
house wifes (housewives)
responce (response)
slaes (sales)
bussiness (business)
oppurtunity (opportunity)

Many more errors such as this can make people thing you are a moron, and not someone who can help them become rich.

You're welcome,
Drew

Late.