[Am-info] Who/what is generating the spurious second emails?

[Mitch Stone]

FWIW, I am not receiving this spurious e-mail.

On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 02:13 AM, Gene Gaines wrote:

> To the AM-INFO list:
>
> We are all receiving a second, spurious email after each
> email sent through the list, with the same sending address and
> subject as the initial email, with the single line of text:
>
> --_===8349384====petreley.com===_--
>
> To the best of my knowledge, Nicholas Petreley is not
> crazy, and he says he is not generating this.
>
> Further, I have temporarily turned off his AM-INFO
> account, and with his account off for more than 24 hours,
> we are still receiving these second spurious emails.
>
> ANY IDEAS WHO/WHAT IS GENERATING THIS?
>
> I am totally saturated with work right now, no time to
> dig into this one, will spend time on it this weekend,
> and I have asked the Essential.org people for assistance.
>
> Sorry about the nuisance.
>
> An example of one such spurious email is below.
   -----------
   Mitch Stone
   mitch@accidentalexpert.com

   You can fool too many of the people
   too much of the time.
   -- James Thurber