Re: Spam from EnterpriseDB?

Gregory S. Williamson wrote:
> I got one as well ... not a big deal in my mind since it's only happened once (weekly would be offensive), and it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility that we'd have use for their services (I try to keep an update list of possible resources for my employers in the event that I get hit by a meteor or a bus or something equally debilitating).

It is pretty bad mojo to harvest emails from a community list to
generate targets for a spam. Keep in mind they didn't email you. They
emailed people on the list. I mean just look at the email...

Dear First Name,

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> Still, I think there might be an appropriate mailing list for this sort of commercial announcement which would be better than the "retail" approach.

There is... it's called pgsql-announce, and they know it.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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> My $0.02 worth ...
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> Greg Williamson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org on behalf of Steve Atkins
> Sent: Thu 1/18/2007 3:54 PM
> To: pgsql general
> Cc:
> Subject: [GENERAL] Spam from EnterpriseDB?
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> Anyone else get spam from EnterpriseDB today, talking about
> "Postgresql Support Services"?
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> I got one to an email address most likely harvested from one of the
> Postgresql mailing lists. Ingrid Catlin over at EnterpriseDB
> confirmed that they sent the mail, but that Rich Romanik provided
> them with the list of email addresses "so it isn't spam".
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> Cheers,
> Steve
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