Cruel portal to Another World

[jdow]

From: "Craig White" <craigwhite at azapple.com>

> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 15:45 -0800, jdow wrote:
>> From: "Craig White" <craigwhite at azapple.com>
>> 
>> > On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 15:15 -0800, jdow wrote:
>> >> From: "Jason L Tibbitts III" <tibbs at math.uh.edu>
>> >> 
>> >> > 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.
> ----
> 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}