not from Darla Wells

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/3/2010 07:01 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>my apologies for having commented on this posting.  it was my first
>experience with a spam posting to a subscription-only mailing list.

You've been (or this list has been) fortunate.  As someone previously
observed (IIRC), spammers and those more malicious can obtain
someone's email address and forge messages in that person's name,
including to mailing lists to which that person has subscribed.

Joel

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