Racist email from aol.com (980330.2)

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• From: John Martin < >
• Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 13:28:05 +0200

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>Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:14:35 +0100
>Subject: Racist email from aol.com (980330.2)
>From: Neil Morris cert@localhost
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>Many of you will have seen or heard of an email containing racist "jokes"
>from AOL over the weekend. JANET-CERT received a number of reports from
>people who were deeply offended by this. A number of individuals have
>reported this to AOL and JANET-CERT also complained to AOL stressing the
>seriousness of this incident. We have received a reply from AOL who have
>said that action has been taken against the account used
>(Spice16402@localhost).
>
>The recipient list appears to have been compiled by trawling mailing lists
>at Warwick.
>
>Neil Morris
>JANET-CERT          Tel: 01235 822340  -  Fax: 01235 822398
>UKERNA              cert@localhost
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John Martin
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