This has to be spam, but the purpose escapes me. The words in brackets are substitutions I made, in order to protect the inboxes and the eyes of the innocent.
From: "rescyou@[somedomain].net" <rescyou@[somedomain].net> To: debian-user@[thisdomain].org Subject: you piece of [crap] Date: 24 Apr 2005 18:22:35 -0000 [Screw] off and die, you piece of [crap].
It just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, doesn't it?
The odd thing is that this is the email address I use on the debian-user mailing list, so it's vaguely possible that I might have offended someone. However, the headers contain no References, In-Reply-To, or User-Agent headers, and the Received: headers are suspicious. So it has to be spam... but why?
I'm probably trying too hard to apply logic.
Kevin Mark says:
As my curiosity gets the better of me sometimes, I googled and wound up here from debian-user. Anyway if you check here[1] you will see no mention of the post you got. So, yes its spam.
Cheers,
Kev
[1]http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/04/mail7.html
Jim says:
Trying too hard, yes. Logic cannot be "applied" in the way you're trying to. Logic isn't "truth", but a process by which conclusions can be derived from assumptions. Correct logic can lead to invalid conclusions if it starts from false assumptions. What are your assumptions? That people who take pleasure in provocation cannot exist? Or people who like to manipulate other people, not for some further end, but purely for the sake of manipulation?
The answer to your "why?" is that they don't follow the same motivations that you do. "Logic" doesn't tell me that, but experience does.
Marcus says:
You see the same kind of thing painted on overpasses. Could spamming that be the modern equivalent?