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From: Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se>
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Subject: Re: python domain in China. This showed up on Python list
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 12:49:06 +0100
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In a message of Tue, 01 Dec 2015 02:51:21 -0800, Chris Rebert writes:
>I hate to break it to you, but this seems to be just another of those
>come-ons spammed out by various scummy businesses that trawl WHOIS
>databases for people to scam into buying extra/unnecessary domain
>names. Google "chinese domain scam" for more info. I've received
>similar spams after having registered some .com domains that no
>corporation could possibly legitimately want the .cn equivalents of.

Ah...  Thank you Chris.  Sure fooled me.

Laura