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   D to oldernow   
   Re: The sorrow of discovering startup su   
   15 Apr 24 11:20:57   
   
   From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Sun, 14 Apr 2024, oldernow wrote:   
      
   > I noticed 'hotmail.com' in the "From:" of another post,   
   > and was anxious to see if Hotmail really, truly still   
   > existed - because part of the fun of USENET can be making   
   > up such identifiers...   
   >   
   > So I ran "elinks hotmail.com", and my heart sank when the   
   > first thing I saw was:   
   >   
   > Microsoft Outlook (formerly Hotmail)   
   >   
   > , that kind of thing pains me....   
      
   Yes... my spam email address is an old hotmail address. Maybe it will be   
   worth a lot of money to collectors in another 50 years or so? ;) Right now   
   I think it has 30k spam emails in it, so it is also, in a way, a beautiful   
   archive of spam. ;)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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