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Randy
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 		[SPEC] Strange email... possible ARG?
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NitaiGouranga
<nitaigouranga@aol.com
Oct 29 (14 hours ago)

Subject: Gouranga
Call out Gouranga be happy!!!
Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga ....
That which brings the highest happiness!!


Hrmm... is this something of significance? Or just a strange email?

PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 2:42 pm
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LordKinbote
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 		Gouranga is a word, apparently, used by Hari Krishnas. And apparently it's become a popular saying of people who play Grand Theft Auto...I guess there are Krishnas in the game?

Verdict: Either you have a weird video game addict of a friend or it's spammalicious

PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 2:46 pm
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mreddy1
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 		you can run down harikrisnas in gta 2.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:29 pm
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Buck Rodgers12
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 		a GTA arg maybe? Since San Andreas just came out. And u got this email on the 29th.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 2:00 am
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kenbo
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 		At first I thought it was spam from gouranga.com but I guess not.
from their page: http://www.gouranga.com/march02.htm

Quote:
Call Out GOURANGA! - Get Spammed! <11:45 PM CST - schu>
Apparently a number of people have been receiving emails with the message, "Call Out GOURANGA! - Be Happy!" They then write me and bitch about spam. In the future before you bitch you might like to know that I didn't even send the emails out, nor do I know who did. Furthermore, if you bitch you could at least have the balls to use your real return address so I can try to explain this.

It might further interest you to know that I am not only person in the world to use the word "gouranga". You need only check the About section to learn more about the word. From what I understand it is used by Hari Krishnas (where DMA originally learned of the word) and it is also used by people in the movement to legalize drugs (mainly marijuana) in the UK. I've also heard that this movement also spray paints this same slogan on bridges and overpasses in the UK. Anyway, I doubt this will even reach any of the people who are bitching to me, but if it does, please send me the original email with the full header intact so I can at least try to track down the source of the emails. In the end it might not do any good because faking a return address is so a easy a two year old could do it, but at least I'll have somewhere to start.



This is from 2002 so if it's an ARG it's damn slow startin'!
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