From: Henry Huang <hwh6k@fulton.seas.virginia.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 03:44:36 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Cypherpunks Death Penalty for "take me of" messages?
Message-ID: <199604181515.LAA35228@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU>
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On Apr 17, 21:38, Timothy C. May wrote:
> >take me of your emailing list
> 
> She (or he) can't even spell "off."
> 
> This clown also sent me the same message privately, so anything done to her
> or him is only fair..
> 
> The Cypherpunks Death Penalty?

Someone suggested that certain people were being signed up on Cypherpunks
as part of a two-fold spam attack:

1.) in order to flood victim's mailbox with Cypherpunks' Welcome messages,
    and list postings,

2.) to re-direct victim's ire at the Cypherpunks list,

thereby killing 2 birds with 1 stone.

Hence, the "Death Penalty" may be jumping the gun, so to speak.  ;)

Not sure how one would go about looking into this, though.

-H