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Perl, RDF and wiki hacker, London, UK. This is my former Perl blog; I now write at Earle's Notebook [downlode.org].
Tuesday September 25, 2007
08:16 AM
Huxley Associates: not malicious, just stupid.
A full fifteen days after emailing Huxley Associates to stop their spam, I just got an email from them with the subject "EZ CR DATA PROTECTION REMOVAL CONFIRMATION_10729672". It was empty apart from a massive (1K of text) signature - with a malformed signature separator, naturally. Attached was a 106K Word document called "DATA PROTECTION REMOVAL CONFIRMATION_10729672.doc". Here's what it said:
[Image: "Huxley Associates"] [hyperlinked email address]
Mr Earle Martin
London
E11 1BG
UNITED KINGDOM
Our Ref.: 10729672
25 September, 2007
Dear Mr Martin,
With respect to your recent request, I can confirm that we have removed your details from our Database.
If you require any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact us at the above email address.
Yours sincerely
Data Protection Controller
That was it. Two weeks' wait. And 106K of Word document for that. Not even an HTML email. Word document.
Some people should just be banned from using computers.
Or is it a BUG?"
"Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)"
--Larry Wall in <6909@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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