[Volunteers] (forw) Re: Co-Branding Opportunity with Network World

[Rick Moen]

Just to confirm that I wasn't kidding about _Network World_ having sent
out broadcast spam mindlessly to "mailto" links.  (I swear, I did _also_ 
receive one ironically touting their spam-fighting coverage, but
evidently it wasn't this one.)


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Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:17:34 -0700
To: volunteers at lists.svlug.org
Subject: Re: Co-Branding Opportunity with Network World

Chrystie Terry <cterry at nww.com> wrote:

> I would like to speak with you about a co-branding opportunity between 
> Silicon Valley Linux Users Group: WELCOME! and Network World.   As you 
> know, Network World's award-winning editorial staff delivers the 
> up-to-date and thoughtful analysis, news, product tests, expert opinion 
> and management strategy that Network IT Executives, the experts who 
> design, implement and manage the data, voice and video networks 
> requires. 

[blah blah]



Just in case anyone is fooled by the above or "link exchange requests", 
etc., notice first of all the odd inclusion of "WELCOME!" in the above.
Have you figured out that bit?

I'll confess, when I saw that message to webmaster at svlug.org, it _did_ 
fool me -- not into thinking it was worthwhile, but at least into 
believing it was actually written by a human being.  It's not.  It's
from a spam script that scrapes text off people's Web pages and sends
spam-mail to the site's maintainer e-mail links.

That became blindingly obvious when I got this mail.  ("Quoth the Raven" 
is text from the top of linuxmafia.com's front page, just as "WELCOME!"
is from SVLUG's.)

Sadly, it appears that this junk really _is_ from Network World
magazine.  (And they give awards for good antispam solutions, etc.)



----- Forwarded message from Chrystie Terry <cterry at nww.com> -----

From: Chrystie Terry <cterry at nww.com>
To: Bale <bale at linuxmafia.com>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 16:39:03 -0400
Subject: Co-Branding Opportunity with Network World

I would like to speak with you about a co-branding opportunity between 
Quoth the Raven and Network World.   As you know, Network World's 
award-winning editorial staff delivers the up-to-date and thoughtful 
analysis, news, product tests, expert opinion and management strategy 
that Network IT Executives, the experts who design, implement and 
manage the data, voice and video networks requires. 

[blah blah]

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