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Responding to spam

For as long as I've been reading Usenet, people have been posting funny replies to spam. (The spammers don't actually read the newsgroups, of course, but spam is usually filled with idiotic statements just begging for a smart-arse reply.) But I think this message is the best such reply I've ever seen:

http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr17383.htm

"Jacob Geller" <jg@finance.com> wrote in message
news:020924002739170@news.mozilla.org...

>September 24, 2002
>The Investors' Edge
>*****Hot Stocks*****
>VICI-OTCBB
>Victor Industries,Inc.-Missoula,MT
>"Showing The World How Green We Are"

The SEC web page says:

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") today charged a Missoula, Montana fertilizer company and two of its principals in a scheme to distribute nearly 20 million shares of stock to the public, in violation of the registration provisions of the federal securities laws. Named in the Commission's lawsuit was Victor Industries, Inc. (OTCBB: VICI); Penny A. Sperry, Victor's President and CEO; and Sperry's ex-husband Ronald N. Pellett, a former stockbroker who served as a consultant to the company. Also named was Xion, Inc., a separate company that Pellett and Sperry used to trade in Victor stock. Simultaneous with the filing of the Commission's complaint, Victor, Sperry, Pellett and Xion, without admitting or denying the allegations in the complaint, agreed to a court order enjoining them from future violations of the registration provisions of the federal securities laws, and other relief.

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