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MacTech Magazine, a long-time and well-known magazine that covers Apple Macintosh issues, is sending bulk email to two email addresses that were last live in the early and mid-2000s. MacTech may be emailing a list that has not been emailed for years or might have ignored bounces for some years in the early and mid-2000s. One of these two email addresses belonged to an avid Macintosh user who almost certainly was a subscriber at some point, so a purchased list although possible is less likely in this case. The ESP is Benchmark Email.

Sending IP: 38.107.205.4

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From: MacTech InDepth <announce@mactech.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Gear up for MacTech InDepth: Mobile Device Management

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December 7, 2011
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