Re: need a sponsor for my parens
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 06:01:52PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:56:35AM +0200, afayolle@debian.org wrote:
> > Are these message genuine, or some kind of spam?
>
> People google for "sponsor" and get the list e-mail address. It's a kind of
> spam, since they've not done even 10 seconds of research to find out whether
> we might be interested, but it's a targeted spam.
I call it the duelling banjos effect. It comes up once in a while -
someone does a search for "duelling banjos" sheet music, finds about
the debian list, and goes to ask there. These requests show up in google,
so the meme goes on.
--
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
"Bill Gates is a monocle and a Persian cat away from being the villain
in a James Bond movie." -- Dennis Miller
Reply to: