Tired of spam, unrelated email?

[BartlebyScrivener]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Due to the vagaries of Usenet,
> I never received the original piece of spam
> at all

Same here. I do all of my persuing via Google Groups, and sometimes the
same thing happens in a legitimate thread. I see somebody responding as
the fist message in the thread, but I never see the OP. 

Odd.

rd