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  Monday 10 November 2003
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There's this somewhat amusing article at The Register:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/33858.html

which seems quite plausible until they get to the name of the alleged victim of the spamming situation. The article claims that someone got spammed by his or her Belkin router. The spammee's name is given as "Uh Clem". I wonder whether the spammee did that on purpose, maybe because he didn't want to attract even more spam by giving his real name; or The Register didn't get permission to print the name and so they changed it; or a rebellious copy-editor changed the text; or a hacker hacked the article; or ... um, cosmic rays! Yeah, that's the ticket!

Update: Ah, ok, follow one more link in the real article: it refers to Clem's email address. His .sig leaves no doubt about the origin:

"If you push something hard enough, it will fall over."
        - Fudd's first law of opposition

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