From: Alex Satrapa (alex.satrapaapf.edu.au)
Date: Wed May 31 2006 - 17:55:53 CDT

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On 1 Jun 2006, at 08:12, Victoriano Giralt wrote:

> I have also received the following 'jewell' from VMware:
>
>> You are receiving this email because our customer records indicate
>> you
>> are a License Administrator, Support Administrator or the registered
>> user of a VMware serial number with one or more of the follow
>> characters
>> in your User ID uid+vmwaredomain.tld:
>>
>> ( ) * + , ; < > \ ~ / :

VMWare are obviously planning to sell their customer list to
spammers, and this purging of extended address details is intended to
make their list more sale-able. Cease doing business with them, and
explain why you are cancelling your support contracts.

If they don't retract their claim that "+" is an invalid character to
have in an email address, make sure the full correspondence gets
submitted to The Register, Slashdot and Digg.

Alex

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