Re: [OFFTOPIC] SPAM from SGI - Greetings! (fwd)

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Tue, 09 Mar 1999 20:20:10 -0500

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 :-)

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carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering			 KF8NH
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