Re: Palaeo spam?? Fw: prehistoric animal giantism

[Richard W Travsky <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Colin McHenry wrote: 
> I received this email yesterday, and I'm wondering anyone else has come
> across this sort of stuff...
> 
> 
> ******************************************************
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marvin <index@dd.iij4u.or.jp>
> To: cmchenry@westserv.net.au <cmchenry@westserv.net.au>
> Date: Sunday, 21 September 2003 9:17
> Subject: prehistoric animal giantism
> [...]
> **********************************************************************
> 
> My suspicions are aroused because it addresses 'Sir', instead of my own
> name, and refers to my home page - I don't have one.  Doubtless he was using
> other search terms, but most of the Google
> hits for my name are to the dinolist archives... I don't recall having
> anything wise to say about the evolution of large size in dinosaurs, either.
> 
> Perhaps I'm doing a disservice to Mr Harvest, but the wording reminds me of
> the opening rounds of a creationist diatribe....are the creationsists now
> trawling the web to pic up the email addresses of possible antagonists?  Has
> anybody else come across this sort of thing?

Weeeeelllllll, consider that with this:


http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=AE9EDA149668D611%40ppp121.na.rim.or.jp&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain

 From: bookrack@na.rim.or.jp (Marvin Harvest)
 Subject: Recycled Books
 Date: 1996/10/31
 Message-ID: <AE9EDA149668D611@ppp121.na.rim.or.jp>#1/1
 organization: THE BOOK RACK

Same name, Japanese addresses.

The Book Rack is a real Japanese book store (or was).

Thin, but it doesn't look like a creationist "diatribe" nor like spam.