Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] SPAM from SGI - Greetings! (fwd) | Date | Tue, 09 Mar 1999 20:20:10 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.990309154926.779i-100000@red.prv>, "Mike A. Harris" w rites: +----- | On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Philip Gladstone wrote: | >> It is an insult to me to receive a mass mailing obviously | >> directed towards kernel hackers on the linux-kernel mailing list, | >> and grouped in with everyone like a McDonalds burger statistic. | > | >A quick check of the headers on the two copies that I received | >reveal that linux-kernel was not being used to expand the message. | | I figured that they scanned l-k for email addresses, and then | spammed directly. Still SPAM though IMHO. SGI boxes are great +--->8
I didn't get it, so either they're being selective or it's not l-k.
| >by sgi.com | > (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not | >authorize the use of its proprietary systems | > or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) +--->8
...but using them to originate spam is apparently okay? Geesh.
| Well, it looks like they picked and chose names from the feedback | I've been getting. Probably looking for non-core developers and | others that are not yet full time kernel coders such as myself. +--->8
...and those who don't pick fights with Linus :-)
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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