Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 1:57 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
I filled it out...
I didn't even click on it. the initial posting smelled far too spammy to me.
I agree. But some "investigation" has been done. It looks legit. Please see the Ned's note in this forum thread:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=17462&forum=4...
The spammy looks of the original post have been removed there.
Despite the use of a generic yahoo email account, the originating IP of the mail to this list also came from an edu.tw domain. I guess the OP didn't make a very good job of making it easily verifiable as non-spam so list members are right to be somewhat suspicious.
If only I could get my users to be as suspicious of clicking on links in emails!