In article .com,
says...
Question?

I get emails in which people ask me to respond if I ship to nigeria and
if I take credit cards. weird since I don't sell anything, but what are
these people fishing for?

They're just throwing a hook into a bit list of e-mail addresses, and
seeing who bites.

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Remove the ns_ from if replying by e-mail (but keep posts in the
newsgroups if possible).