From: "Craig White" <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 15:45 -0800, jdow wrote:
From: "Craig White" <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 15:15 -0800, jdow wrote:
>> From: "Jason L Tibbitts III" <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> > And I thought I was special. But no, Ravi did not hand select me as a
>> > righteous specimen of syadmin godliness. It was merely spam.
>>
>> Did anybody check to see if Ravi's email really checked back to a real
>> Google machine?
>>
>> {o.o} Just wondering....
>> If it seems too good to be true, it probably IS too good to be true.
> ----
> if one believes that the headers weren't forged...
Looks real to me. I "presume" everybody checked before sending email
back to the fellow.
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I didn't reply back at all, but merely forwarded it on to clients as
implied extortion, saying...I'm wanted by the big guns ;-)
thus I didn't check until you asked...but then I didn't care.
heck, the guy obviously combed the list and harvested addresses. There
surely was no way to ascertain the selection criteria he used and it may
very well have been little more than is still capable of fogging a
mirror.
Certainly wasn't enough to give me dreams of sipping cocktails in
Zurich ;-) but then, I didn't need the thought of Google to get me
there.
If it meant writing web software I'd pass without a second thought.
If I absolutely had to choose between writing web software and database
software I'd know I've landed in "that bad place" and simply flip a
coin to let random chance pick my torture.
{o.o}
