bruriap

I have found myself on a strange mailing list.

On 2004-10-30, I received an email from bruriap@aol.com announcing a meeting:

From: bruriap@aol.com <bruriap@aol.com>
To: bruriap@aol.com
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 01:33:07 EST
Subject: Wednesday Night

Ohr Naava
Wednesday night schedule:

7:00 - Karate - Haya!

8:00 - Parsha and Halacha  -
Rabbi Freiman

9:15 - Part I of Chanuka Series "I Refuse To Give In" 
Rabbi Wallerstein

See you there!

On 2004-12-03, I received a second email from bruriap@aol.com announcing another meeting:

From: bruriap@aol.com <bruriap@aol.com>
To: bruriap@aol.com
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 00:28:40 EST
Subject: Thursday Night!

Thursday night:
7:00 PM - Come and join Yochani's awesome art class - explore
and develop your talents!

8:00 PM - Come and learn how to braid challah!
All challah's made go to Tomchei Shabbos - an organization that
helps needy families.
Plus, special guest, Mrs. Chanie Mandel, will be there to teach
us how to make a new surprise recipe!
(Due to tha large number of challahs needed and the limited oven
space, we will start making challahs as early as possible - so
if you have time, come and join us!)

Don't forget about those toys for the Toy Drive!  Ask your family
and friends to help out too - the more presents and toys we get,
the more smiles we can put on children's faces.

Tizku L'Mitzvos!  Looking forward to seeing you there! 

On this second occurance, I realized I had been placed on a mailing list, probably in error. So, I replied to the email:

From: Michal <michalg@g...>
To: "bruriap@aol.com" <bruriap@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 21:49:44 -0800
Subject: Re: Thursday Night!

Hi,

This in response to the second email that I received from you
regarding a meeting.

Who are you?

-Michal

I received a puzzled response in short order:

From: bruriap@aol.com <bruriap@aol.com>
To: michalg@g...
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 02:44:48 EST
Subject: Re: Thursday Night!

In a message dated 12/2/04 12:50:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, michalg@g... writes:

> Hi,
>
> This in response to the second email that I received from you
> regarding a meeting.
>
> Who are you?
>
> -Michal
>


What meeting?
I am *NAME CENSORED*
Who are you? 

The name given appears to match the email address.

I had intentions to immediately reply, but time got the better of me and I did not. Over the course of the next two weeks, I received eight more announcements. For brevity I will omit them here, except to list the subjects:

2004-12-03 SABABA - ride gemach
2004-12-07 A LOT OF VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION [dec.doc]
2004-12-08 Chessed Opportunity
2004-12-11 REMINDER
2004-12-11 REMINDER
2004-12-13 Monday Night!
2004-12-13 Monday Night!
2004-12-14 ?

In the last email was written another email address, rebbezw@yahoo.com. I have written to it asking for an explanation. Updates on this matter will be posted here.