Quoth Ira Abramov on Tue, Apr 01, 2003:
> The Linus I know barely has the time for lkml, much less his local LUG,
> and I find it kind of odd he would use a webmail address rather than a
> more conveniant one.
Come on, the spoof wasn't so bad. The timezone was correct, for
starters. Not being a spammer, the spoofer didn't disguise his
identity too much (he didn't add spoofed Received: headers, nor
even did he spoof the sender address), and made it quite obvious
that it was an April 1st joke.
The text *could* have been better, though.
> I am only left with a big question mark here, who IS this poster and
> what does he really want? to troll the list, pull an April 1st, or (my
> paranoid hat) harvest our Email addresses for spam?
Those who harvest e-mail addresses for spam don't tend to post.
> Dear prankster,
> Have a happy fool's day,
Seconded!
> enjoy your GNU/linux and think up a better diguise :)
Where are the RFCs?
Vadik.
--
I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending
their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to
buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
-- Emile Henry Gauvreay
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