If you look back I may have beat that. ;~)
> It's funny to see an answer to an old post like this but sometimes it
> can be educational to everyone if not the original poster.
> You sometimes have to wonder if the person that made the original
> post is even still alive. :!)
I can tell you this and let you decide
these replies to old posts I think are spam precursors they are trying to get accepted into lists and thus bypass spam detection later by fooling the lists/groups into whitelisting them
they wait awhile then use most of the same data in the original mail header and spam some group/maillist
replies help them with their deed