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From: Colin Paul Gloster on 12 May 2010 08:15
Have any of you been spammed by Charles River Analytics Inc.? Could
any of you suggest a suitable lawyer?

An email attributed to Dirk Smith <dsmith(a)cra.com> dated May 6th, 2010
contained:
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|[..] It would be helpful if you could |
|answer these few questions: |
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|[..]" |
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I telephoned Charles River Analytics Inc. last week and I asked how
the email address had been obtained. No attempt at an explanation has
been received so far. It is hypocritical to want me to answer
questions when not even a lone quetion from me has been answered.

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|"Thank you for your consideration. |
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|Dirk |
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|Dirk A. D. Smith, |
|Charles River Analytics Inc. |
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|625 Mount Auburn Street |
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|Cambridge, MA 02138 |
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|Phone: (617) 491-3474,  x539 |
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|Cell: (603) 233-1598 |
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|Fax: (617) 868-0780 |
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|Web: www.cra.com |
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|Email: dsmith(a)cra.com |
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|THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED FOR THE USE OF THE PERSON TO WHOM IT IS ADDRESSED. IT MAY CONTAIN |
|INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL AND EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.|
|If you are not the intended recipient, your use of this message for any purpose is strictly |
|prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please delete the message and |
|notify the sender so that we may correct our records." |
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Contacting Charles River Analytics Inc. does not seem to have resulted
in anything so far except a waste of time and money.

Yours sincerely,
Colin Paul Gloster
From: Spam Guy on 12 May 2010 09:07
Colin Paul Gloster wrote:

> Have any of you been spammed by Charles River Analytics Inc.?

Post the full header of one of these spams here. Remove or mung any
personal information in the header if necessary.

Why did you cross-post this to comp.lang.ada?

I am posting this (my reply) to the usenet newsgroups

- alt.spam
- comp.lang.ada

as well as e-mailing it to

- Colin_Paul_Gloster(a)ACM.org
- dsmith(a)cra.com

If you wish to respond to this, post it to alt.spam. Do not e-mail (it
will bounce).
From: Colin Paul Gloster on 14 May 2010 07:03
Dirk Smith <dsmith(a)CRA.com> sent by email:
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|"[..] |
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|In the meantime, however, I wonder if you might do a kindness for me and for Charles River |
|Analytics (it really is a good company with a lot of nice people!) I am worried about the blog|
|posts possibly creating a dark impression of me and - far more importantly - of Charles River |
|(I would not want any actions on my part to adversely affect others!) Would you consider |
|updating the posts to the two sites? |
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|[..] |
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|THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED FOR THE USE OF THE PERSON TO WHOM IT IS ADDRESSED. IT MAY CONTAIN |
|INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL AND EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW. |
|If you are not the intended recipient, your use of this message for any purpose is strictly |
|prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please delete the message and |
|notify the sender so that we may correct our records." |
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That email seemed to have mixed messages. Maybe this response is what
was requested, maybe not.

On average, I receive approximately two emails per week from the
person who I work for. I have not received any emails from that
employer this week, but I did receive five emails from that employer
so far this month.

CRA has emailed me more times this week than who I work for usually
does in a week. Out of kindness to CRA or Dirk Smith of CRA, I send
this now, despite having already explained when Dirk Smith telephoned
me (which I acknowledge he did with an explanation for one of my
concerns of the time) that I am busy this month and short on time, so
I do not currently have the time to personally answer as much as I
might later.

Dirk Smith mentioned that he did not receive the voicemail which I
recorded last week. I accpet that that is plausible: I recorded it on
the general voicemail for Charles River Analytics instead of on an
extension used exclusively by him.

Despite sending me an email last week with "Ada" in the subject
header, the body of the email was re C++. That would not be likely to
garner support from me (he said that he found email addresses by using
a search engine and searching for "Ada systems") nor on comp.lang.ada
except from the likes of Dewar but he abandoned comp.lang.ada long
ago.

On account of producing a partial response in paragraphs above, I have
not gotten round to compiling anything yet this morning and at least
three days in the past month or so (including yesterday) I was working
for more than ten hours in a single day without a lunch break and I
need to get back to work if you do not mind.

Yours sincerely,
Colin Paul Gloster
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