August 20th, 2003, 10:25 PM
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Re: Scam Or Not?
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Originally posted by DavidG:
It's hard not to be paranoid when MS sends you the F#$&*#^ thing 100 times!! I also got it multiple times. Why the heck would they do that??
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They send it to everyone on their lists once. However, apparently, it's possible to get on their lists more than once. With the number of addresses they have, and the fact that removing duplicates is an O(n^2) operation, I can understand why they do.
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