>Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 13:16:12 -0500
>To: Ken Ambrose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: Jerry Kubeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Fwd: "Linux Hacker" Ethnography
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>I have no opinion on this, but being from Oregon originally, the Clackamas
>CC is the Clackamas Community College abaout 7 miles or so from my
>mother's house so there is a real college there.
>
>Jerry
>
>>On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Derek D. Martin wrote:
>>
>>> SPAM ALERT! I dunno, this may be legit, but it doesn't sound like it
>>> to me... it appears to have originated from a dialup AOL account.
>>> >From the headers:
>>
>>I hate to say it, but I disagree. For one, just how big a demographic is
>>the Linux community? I mean,
>>a) Relatively few outside of the Linux community would write up something
>> like the below (or, for that matter, even be able to), and
>>b) No Linux company in their right mind would try to win customers
>> from spam.
>>c) It would be more efficient to just subscribe to a zillion lists and
>> troll.
>>
>>Regardless of the above, however, a quick trip to Altavista, with
>>+CCC +wr-121
>>turns up this URL:
>>
>>http://cs.clackamas.cc.or.us/CLASSES/CS160/fal99-01/syllabus.htm
>>
>>Hmmm... Oregon. I know a Portland near there. And it's a class that
>>pertains to, among other things, the discussion of the "ethical, social
>>and legal issues surround[ing] computer science" and providing a
>>"technical introduction to computing topics required for computer
>>technicians."
>>
>>In other words, methinks it's probably best to look before you leap. Oh,
>>one last quote from the page (under "required materials"):
>>
>>- Internet access. (This can be here at CCC, but access from home is great!)
>>
>>-Ken (who *is* going to reply to this, and help out a budding Linux fan.)
>>
>>> Received: from usermail.com (AC81E288.ipt.aol.com [172.129.226.136])
>>> by tot-we.proxy.aol.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id eAEM2UJ13472
>>> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:02:30 -0500 (EST)
>>>
>>> Has a suspicious Apparently-From header:
>>>
>>> X-Apparently-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
>>> And the sender doesn't even send the mail from his (supposed) school
>>> account where he's doing this "research" from.
>>>
>>> X-Sender: Casioqv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>
>>> Here's some more suspicion:
>>>
>>> 4. This is anonymous. You do not have to tell me your name if you
>>> do not want to. If you don't even want me to know your name at all
>>> I can set up a cgi script so you can fill out the form from my web page.
>>>
>>> Yeah? Well where's the website? And how can I send you an e-mail
>>> response anonymously? (Well, there are anonymous remailers...)
>>>
>>> The questions themselves are pure marketing-ese. All the stuff
>>> marketing people want to know about you so they can categorize you and
>>> direct-market to you. Also, anybody ever seen any posts from this guy
>>> before? (And has anybody ever heard of CCC? What college is that?)
>>>
>>> I certainly have no intention of replying and unless you like
>>> receiving spam, my suggestion to you is that you ignore this message
>>> too.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> We sometimes catch a window, a glimpse of what's beyond
>>> Was it just imagination stringing us along?
>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>> Derek Martin | Unix/Linux geek
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>>>
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