Lee Maguire graded snobberies, bawdiness, hypocrisy

Posted
9 January 2003
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Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Spammer…

The Register reports that the Ministry of Defence sent spam regarding the call-up of volunteer forces in the event of a conflict in Iraq.

I checked the spam-bin, and sure enough there it was in all its HTML-email, invalid Message-Id: ugliness. Amusingly the Date: was set to timezone +0100 – since the UK is still in GMT, the mail came from somewhere else.

Reply-To: autoreply2@e-crmdata.ecircle-ag.com

So the MoD used eCircle AG, a German company to spam UK businesses.
Dad’s Army it ain’t.