On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 06:01:52PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:56:35AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Are these message genuine, or some kind of spam? > > People google for "sponsor" and get the list e-mail address. It's a kind of > spam, since they've not done even 10 seconds of research to find out whether > we might be interested, but it's a targeted spam.
I call it the duelling banjos effect. It comes up once in a while - someone does a search for "duelling banjos" sheet music, finds about the debian list, and goes to ask there. These requests show up in google, so the meme goes on. -- Michel "Walken" Lespinasse "Bill Gates is a monocle and a Persian cat away from being the villain in a James Bond movie." -- Dennis Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
