{"id":4802,"date":"2004-01-04T08:01:23","date_gmt":"2004-01-04T15:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4802"},"modified":"2004-01-04T08:01:23","modified_gmt":"2004-01-04T15:01:23","slug":"petard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/04\/petard.html","title":{"rendered":"Petard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t mean to tell me that companies that pander to spammers &#8212; most of whom redolent frauds &#8212; might <a title=\"~rejo: a spamvertized cd with e-mailaddresses\" href=\"http:\/\/rejo.zenger.nl\/abuse\/emailcd.php\">themselves be frauds<\/a>?  Say it ain&#8217;t so, Joe!<\/p>\n<p>This site purchased a couple of those CDs you get spam for, the ones that say they have zillions of legit e-mail addresses that you can then use for your own spamming operation.  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