[Dixielandjazz] Fw: What's this about?

[David Gannett]

Ken - Yup, I was in the Black Dogs.  That "exploding tuba nonsense" was offensive to a lot of die-hard absolute trad purists...but then again, they weren't playing to sro crowds and breaking sales and attendance records wherever they went.  Silly me.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Mathieson" <ken at kenmath.free-online.co.uk>
> To: "David Gannett" <evidence at otelco.net>
> Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Fw: What's this about?
> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:20:35 -0000
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks to Dan Kirkman, Dave Richoux and Dan Augustine for their 
> input on this. My anti-virus found nothing sinister in the incoming 
> mails, but I suspected phishing and binned the 2 mails. A third one 
> came in later and got binned too. Since they were coming to me from 
> DJML, I also feared that someone was using the list to disseminate 
> spam, if anyone was daft enough to respond.
> 
> If Dave Gannett is reading this, are you the guy who used to play 
> tuba with the Black Dogs? If so, we've met lots of times when I was 
> on the road with Fat Sam's Band. I knew all that exploding tuba 
> nonsense on Tiger Rag would get to you sooner or later!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ken Mathieson
> www.classicjazzorchestra.org.uk
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ken Mathieson
> To: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 5:36 PM
> Subject: What's this about?
> 
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I got the mail below and an identical one (timed at the same time) 
> ostensibly in connection with a posting I had made to the list. As 
> you can see, the sender made no attempt to identify himself, so I 
> haven't responded to the invitation to reply, I've treated both 
> mails as potentially malicious and zapped them. It could be 
> perfectly genuine, in which case the sender should have identified 
> him/herself. Alternatively, the list might be being used to 
> propagate spam.
> 
> Ken Mathieson
> 
> Here's the message:
> 
> Hello,
> You've just sent your first email to me since I've installed Bsafe 
> Online's spam killer. For this first time only, please help me add 
> your email address to my approved sender list.
> Simply reply to this email with the following code in the subject 
> line of your reply.
> 
> 158ccf23
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> evidence at otelco.net
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